A South Korean high court on Feb. 1 ruled that a centuries-old Buddhist statue belongs to the Japanese temple that it was stolen from about 10 years ago and should be returned, overturning a lower ...

An ancient Buddha statue measuring 1.7 meters in height was unearthed at an archaeological site in Yakjon-ri, South Pyongan Province, North Korea, according to Popular Mechanics. The discovery ...

Nujoma is just one of the many examples of statues in Africa constructed by a North Korean company ... Perched on a hill in Dakar, Senegal, there is a bronze statue of a man, woman and child.

An ancient Buddha statue from the early Goryeo dynasty was recently discovered at an archaeological site in North Korea. The Goryeo study saw the flourishing of Buddhist art and architecture ...

SEOUL (AFP): South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Buddhist temple's claim to a 700-year-old statue purportedly looted from its premises by Japanese pirates in the 14th century ...

The director behind Stellar Blade has become one of the wealthiest people in Korea, but it’s not for ... its wealth through a new $2,400 (£1,800) statue of Stellar Blade protagonist EVE.

DAEJEON, South Korea--A Buddhist priest from Nagasaki Prefecture demanded the quick return of a statue stolen from his temple a decade ago and smuggled to South Korea in his first court appearance ...

Thousands of Buddhist believers and festival-goers filled downtown Seoul for Yeon Deung Hoe, or the Lotus Lantern Festival.

(Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. Researchers ...