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In Uljin,South Korea is having their worse/biggest wildfire in the past 10 years, this fire is on going for 4 days now "In Uljin, where the fires first started, wildfires are hardly ever extinguished. Now, the fire is spreading toward Daeheung-ri and Sillim-ri, Uljin-gun, The fire is also spreading toward the Geumgangsong community, and there are 80,000 cypress trees that are over 200 years old in an area of ​​2,200 hectares of the pine community, and they are in danger of being burned.

The Korea Forest Service is building a defense line, but the fire has spread to the chin of the Geumgangsong colony.

Bulyeongsa, a temple during the Shilla period, is also in a state of tension at the risk of being engulfed in wildfire.

Bulyeongsa Temple moved treasures and tangible cultural assets such as Yeongsanhoesangdo, and covered the stone pagoda with tarpaulin to prepare for fire.

The fire, which had spread in the south direction of Uljin-eup, has now been stopped by building a defense line by the fire department.