A centuries-old Korean structure taken to Japan during the colonial era has finally come home. On June 24, South Korea’s ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. ... The face of the Buddha Amitabha was carved into the weathered stone.

A South Korean Buddhist statue must return to Japan, according to the state court. However, a Korean temple claiming ownership of the 14th-century artifact may appeal the ruling.

One of the sculptures, which weighs nearly 500-600 pounds and stands around 7 feet tall, depicts the late retired U.S. Army Col. Ralph Puckett Jr.

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a yearslong legal battle between Japan and South Korea over ...

The statue, which stands just over 13 feet tall and weighs approximately six tons, was created in Carrara marble by Korean sculptor Han Jin-Sub, who worked with Italian artist Nicolas Stagetti in ...

A South Korean court has ruled that a 14th century Korean Buddhist statue should be sent back to a Japanese temple from where it was stolen in 2012.

The statue of St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, the first Korean Catholic priest, martyr and saint, was unveiled on the outer wall of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, media reports say. The installation ...

The two stone statues of an auspicious animal known as seosu that used to decorate the woldae, a wide platform, in front of the Gwanghwamun Gate of the Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul during the ...

Backers say the bronze statue—which would be installed in Philly’s Queen Village—would highlight an often overlooked atrocity, in which occupying Japanese troops forced Korean women into ...