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We identify artists to watch from eight East Asian countries that should all be on your cultural radar this year – Malaysia and South Korea.

Lee's 'Home to Come' to be performed at MMCA March 28 to 30 Lee Mi-re, one of South Korea's younger, rising artists, will showcase her first-ever performance work next week, extending her artistic practice that has centered on creating viscous kinetic installations to a new artistic realm.

But the largest culprit is the wind and dry land. The ideal environment for South Korea's largest ever wildfire has been building for the past few weeks. It's only March, but we've already seen temperatures rise to 20 degrees Celsius, which often dries out the air. And strong gusts are sweeping over the inland regions.

The Unesco-listed Hahoe Folk Village in South Korea has been evacuated and a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple burned to the ground after wildfires tore through southern parts of the country this week. A major Buddhist landmark,

The fires have ravaged the country’s southeast for the past six days and displaced tens of thousands from their homes.

By Joyce Lee, Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim YEONGYANG, South Korea (Reuters) - As the flames of a raging wildfire swept towards the town of Samui-ri in South Korea's mountainous southeast this week, a village leader surnamed Kwon rushed home to try to help his family and neighbours.