{"id":70422,"date":"2025-03-26T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/26\/south-korea-fires-andong-city-death-toll"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:47:58","slug":"south-korea-fires-18-dead-as-acting-president-speaks-of-unprecedented-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70422","title":{"rendered":"South Korea fires: 18 dead as acting president speaks of \u2018unprecedented damage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple is among buildings destroyed after dry and windy weather saw mostly contained blazes spread again<\/p>\n<p>Wind-driven wildfires that were among South Korea\u2019s worst ever are ravaging southern regions, killing 18 people, destroying more than 200 structures and forcing 27,000 people to evacuate, officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Han Duck-soo, South Korea\u2019s prime minister and acting president, said five days of fires had caused \u201cunprecedented damage\u201d and asked agencies tackling the disaster to \u201cassume the worst-case scenario and respond accordingly\u201d, according to Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/26\/south-korea-fires-andong-city-death-toll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple is among buildings destroyed after dry and windy weather saw mostly contained blazes spread againWind-driven wildfires that were among South Korea\u2019s worst ever are ravaging southern regions, killing 18 people, destroyin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,723,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-wildfires","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70428,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70422\/revisions\/70428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}