When a colony of reddish-yellow furred Hodgson’s bats, once thought extinct in South Korea, was found in an abandoned gold mine in the country’s Hampyeong county in 1999, some saw a chance. It ...

A rural South Korean county was mocked for spending more than $2 million to build a statue of bats made out of real gold. But with gold prices on the rise, the estimated value of the statue has ...