SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The death toll from a wave of wildfires that tore through southeastern region has risen to 18, with one person missing, forest service officials said Wednesday, as firefighters still battled to contain the rapidly spreading blazes. The fires that began in Sancheong County in South Gyeongsang Province last Friday [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major business groups have stepped up to support relief and recovery efforts for residents affected by recent wildfires in the country’s southeastern region, they said Wednesday. Hyundai Motor Group said it has donated 2 billion won (US$1.26 million) to aid the recovery in the areas hit by [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Wildfires ravaging South Korea’s southeastern region forced more residents to evacuate Tuesday, as firefighting authorities struggled to contain the rapidly spreading blazes that destroyed a centuries-old temple. The fires that began in Sancheong County in the southeast on Friday have spread to nearby Uiseong, and were advancing to neighboring [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Authorities will intensively deploy helicopters to battle the deadly wildfires that have engulfed the southeastern county of Sancheong for the fourth consecutive day Monday, as the blaze is spreading to the adjacent Hadong County, officials said. As many as 36 helicopters were deployed to the two counties in South [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has provided Hawaii with food and other emergency supplies to help cope with a series of devastating wildfires that recently ravaged the island of Maui, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. Lee Seo-young, South Korean consul general in Honolulu, expressed hopes for Hawaii’s speedy recovery as he delivered [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has decided to provide Hawaii with US$2 million worth of humanitarian aid to help respond to a series of wildfires that recently raked the island of Maui, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. The latest wildfires have killed at least 93, making it the deadliest U.S. fire in [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday decided to dispatch an emergency firefighting team to Canada to help the North American nation deal with raging wildfires across the country, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. The decision to send the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT) of 151 workers — including firefighters, emergency workers and [...]
GANGNEUNG, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Heading straight to the site of the disaster, some 20 government officials received a distress call indicating that a wildfire had broken out in the eastern coastal city of Gangneung and was being fanned by strong winds toward Gyeongpodae Pavilion, a state-designated cultural treasure. The site of the fire [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in on Sunday designated the eastern coastal area that has been ravaged by a massive wildfire as a special disaster zone, and vowed swift government support for the victims, his office said. The move came hours after Moon met with displaced people at a makeshift shelter in [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to establish a comprehensive wildfire prevention system using information and communications technology (ICT) including the introduction of a 3D-based wildfire spread prediction system that can reproduce detailed three-dimensional models of mountainous terrain. The Korea Forest Service (KFS) recently announced the launch of a comprehensive wildfire prevention [...]