The wildfire in the southeastern city of Miryang in South Gyeongsang Province is continuing for a third day, destroying nearly 700 hectares of woodland.
The Korea Forest Service said that as of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, 73 percent of the fire had been put out, after a reignition decreased the rate to 45 percent earlier in the day.
The forest service has mobilized 53 helicopters and some two-thousand-450 personnel to put out the fire.
Officials are focusing on efforts to prevent the fire from igniting transmission lines at the northern end of the blaze.
Source: KBS World Radio