Summary
- President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee celebrated the return of 14th-century Buddhist relics
- The relics were deemed national heritage and were returned to a Buddhist temple in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province
- Efforts to return the relics were made possible through improved South Korea-US ties and negotiations
- The relics, including sariras of two monks, were housed in Boston since 1939, suspected to have been illicitly transferred from Korea to the US during Japanese colonial rule
