[KS] Naksan Temple

Lauren W. Deutsch lwdeutsch at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 6 15:13:57 EDT 2005


In an interesting exchange about this, a Korean friend said "they" think it was North Koreans ... is this type of maliciousness ... or the rumour of such ... regular hearsy, or is the incident more a factor of the lack of awareness that smoking and careless campfire building can cause forest fires?
-----Original Message-----
From: Brother Anthony <ansonjae at ccs.sogang.ac.kr>
Sent: Apr 5, 2005 6:19 PM
To: Korean Studies Discussion List <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
Subject: [KS] Naksan Temple

Members of this list might like to spare a moment to grieve for the almost total destruction of Naksan
Temple yesterday in one of the many forest fires that are always a major feature of each year's
Tree-Planting Day. Months of drought and a gale-force wind, plus the absence of any kind of fire-breaks
between forest and temple or between sections of forest helped of course. Two of the 20 or so halls are
reported to have survived.

Brother Anthony
Sogang University, Seoul
http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony



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