More than seven in 10 of South Korea’s seasonal wildfire fighters are aged 60 or older. This month’s wildfire claimed some of their lives.

South Korean authorities have contained the main blazes in the country's largest forest fire on record, a minister said on Friday, as rain and better weather allowed more helicopters to fly and dump water,

Police believe the fire may have been triggered on 22 March by a 56-year-old man tending to his grandparents’ gravesites. Local media reports say the man had been trying to burn overhanging tree branc