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S. Korean chemical tanker capsizes off western Japan

Photo taken on March 20, 2024, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat (bottom) conducting a search and rescue operation as five crew members went missing after a South Korean chemical tanker (top) capsized off the western Japan city of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, earlier in the day.

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3 dead, 1 missing as fishing boat sinks off S Korea's southern coast

STORY: 3 dead, 1 missing as fishing boat sinks off S Korea's southern coast SHOOTING TIME: March 14, 2024 DATELINE: March 14, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: Seoul CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of South Korean Coast Guard searching and rescuing crew members of the fishing boat (courtesy of Korea Coast Guard) STORYLINE: Three sailors were confirmed dead, and one other remained missing, as a fishing boat sank off South Korea's southern coast, Yonhap news agency said Thursday. The 139-ton trawler with 11 crew members on board, including four South Koreans, six Indonesians and one Vietnamese, sank in waters off an island in Tongyeong, about 330 km south of the capital Seoul. A distress call was sent to the coast guard at around 4:15 a.m. local time (1915 GMT Wednesday). Ten crew members were rescued by the coast guard and nearby boats, but three South Koreans, including a captain, were taken to a hospital unconscious before being confirmed dead. One South Korean sailor remained unaccoun

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Japanese survey ship joins Japan-S. Korea radioactivity survey

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard survey ship Kaiyo heads out to sea from Moji port in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture on Sept. 11 to take part in a joint Japan-South Korea radioactivity survey mission in the southwestern region of the Sea of Japan, including waters close to the disputed Takeshima island, or Dokdo in Korean. The mission, which will last until Sept. 18, is intended to study possible impact of radioactive wastes dumped by the former Soviet Union and Russia.

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1 month since ferry sinking

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Coast Guard rescuers work off Jindo Island, southwestern South Korea, on May 16, 2014, to search for the missing around the point where the ferry Sewol sank on April 16.

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1 month since ferry sinking

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Coast Guard rescuers work off Jindo Island, southwestern South Korea, on May 16, 2014, to search for the missing around the point where the ferry Sewol sank on April 16.

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S. Korean ferry sinks

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Photo shows relatives (front) of passengers who remain missing after the sinking of a passenger ferry and a South Korean Coast Guard vessel under a search operation, at a port on Jindo Island in the southwestern part of South Korea in the early hours of April 17, 2014. The 6,800-ton Sewol, carrying a total of 462 people, many of them high school students on an overnight trip to the southern resort island of Jeju, sank the previous day.

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S. Korean ferry sinks

JINDO ISLAND, South Korea - Photo shows relatives of passengers who remain missing after the sinking of a passenger ferry and a South Korean Coast Guard vessel (back), at a port on Jindo Island in the southwestern part of South Korea in the early hours of April 17, 2014. The 6,800-ton Sewol, carrying a total of 462 people, many of them high school students on an overnight trip to the southern resort island of Jeju, sank the previous day.

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Protest in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a South Korean conservative group rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on Dec. 15, 2011, to protest over the recent fatal stabbing of a South Korean Coast Guard officer by a Chinese fisherman caught illegally fishing in the Yellow Sea.

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China regrets death of S. Korean coast guard officer

BEIJING, China -Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin speaks during a press conference in Beijing on Dec. 13, 2011. Liu said China regrets what it called ''an unfortunate incident,'' referring to the fatal stabbing of a South Korean coast guard officer when a coast guard SWAT team boarded a Chinese fishing boat in the Yellow Sea the previous day.

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S. Korean newspapers report killing of Coast Guard officer

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo shows South Korean newspapers dated Dec. 13, 2011, reporting on an incident the previous day in which a South Korean Coast Guard officer was fatally stabbed by a Chinese sailor caught fishing illegally in the Yellow Sea.

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9 N. Korean defectors leave for S. Korea

FUKUOKA, Japan - Nine North Korean defectors aboard a Japan Coast Guard airplane (front) arrive at Fukuoka airport in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at 9:07 a.m. on Oct. 4, 2011, to head for South Korea in accordance with their wishes aboard a Korean Air plane (back). Tokyo and Seoul arranged the transfer of the defectors who were found adrift on a wooden boat off Ishikawa Prefecture in September 2011.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers after getting off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Boat carrying apparent N. Korean defectors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a wooden boat (front) being towed by the Japan Coast Guard in the Sea of Japan to Kanazawa port, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found the boat carrying nine apparent defectors from North Korea -- six adults and three children -- earlier in the day in waters off Wajima in the prefecture. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and that they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a helicopter taking off from the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Hida, in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The helicopter was carrying nine probable defectors from North Korea-- six adults and three children -- found earlier in the day on a wooden boat. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers after getting off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a wooden boat bearing Korean characters on its side in the Sea of Japan off Ishikawa Prefecture on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found the boat carrying nine probable defectors from North Korea -- six adults and three children -- earlier in the day. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Boat carrying apparent N. Korean defectors

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a wooden boat being towed by the Japan Coast Guard in the Sea of Japan to Kanazawa port, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found the boat carrying nine apparent defectors from North Korea -- six adults and three children -- earlier in the day in waters off Wajima in the prefecture. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers as they get off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Yeonpyeong Island on alert

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - Members of the South Korean coast guard remain on alert at a ferry pier on Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 28, 2010. Tensions grew on the island near North Korea in the Yellow Sea as a U.S.-South Korea joint naval exercise began the same day nearby.

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Yeonpyeong Island on alert

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea - A South Korean coast guard ship cruises in waters off Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 28, 2010. Tensions grew on the island near North Korea in the Yellow Sea as a U.S.-South Korea joint naval exercise began the same day nearby.

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MSDF ship collides with S. Korean vessel in Kammon Strait

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard staff inspect the damaged Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kurama in Kitakyushu on Oct. 28, 2009. The vessel's bow was damaged in a collision with the South Korean container ship Carina Star the previous night in the Kammon Strait between Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures.

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MSDF ship collides with S. Korean vessel in Kammon Strait

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard staff inspect the damaged Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kurama in Kitakyushu on Oct. 28, 2009. The vessel's bow was damaged in a collision with the South Korean container ship Carina Star the previous night in the Kammon Strait between Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures.

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1 body, another crewman found after sinking of freighter

TOBA, Japan - Coast Guard members examine a rescue raft belonging to the South Korean freighter Zenith Light, which sank in the Pacific Ocean off Mie Prefecture on Feb. 14, at Toba Port in the prefecture on Feb. 15.

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Japan, S. Korea to jointly survey radiation in Sea of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard research ship Kaiyo leaves Moji port in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 7 to survey the level of radiation in the Sea of Japan with South Korean researchers.

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Japan wants S. Korea to 'understand' survey near disputed isles

TOTTORI, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard survey vessels docked off Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast on April 19 as Japan called on South Korea to ''understand'' its planned maritime survey near the disputed South Korean-controlled islets, called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.

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Japan Coast Guard vessels to conduct survey near disputed isles

YONAGO, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard vessels are berthed at Sakai port, Tottoti Prefecture, on April 19. The ships arrived at the port earlier in the day to conduct a maritime survey near the South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan also claimed by Japan.

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Korean tanker collides with Thai container ship

NAGOYA, Japan - The South Korean tanker Woo Ryong, with 12 crew members, is seen in the Pacific Ocean off Toba, Mie Prefecture, on July 5 following its collision with the 1,318-ton Thai container ship Ratanathida, with 19 crew members, earlier in the day. The 1,448-ton Woo Ryong spilled 2,600 liters of heavy fuel oil. One of its crew members was injured, the Japan Coast Guard said.

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Japan to probe sunken mystery ship with camera from Mon.+

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Izu leaves Yokohama port, south of Tokyo, Feb. 22 for the East China Sea. It will probe the wreckage of a suspected North Korean spy boat that sank Dec. 22 last year after an exchange of fire with the coast guard.

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S. Korean fishing boat sinks in Sea of Japan, crew safe

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Ten crew members of the 69-ton South Korean ship 27 Nam Young relax at a Japan Coast Guard base in Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture on Jan. 2 after their ship sank earlier in the day in the Sea of Japan off Shimane Prefecture, western Japan.

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Pacific coast guards to team up against poachers, drugs, guns

TOKYO, Japan - National coast guard chiefs from Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States shake hands after a two-day meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 21. They agreed to team up to fight crimes such as drug and gun smuggling and poaching in their territorial waters. (From L to R) South Korean National Maritime Police Agency Commissioner Lee Gyu Sik, Japan Coast Guard Commandant Shogo Arai, Russian Federal Border Service Commandant Konstantin Totskii and U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. James Loy. China canceled plans to attend the meeting.

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S. Korean fishing boat sinks in Sea of Japan, crew safe

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Ten crew members of the 69-ton South Korean ship 27 Nam Young relax at a Japan Coast Guard base in Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture on Jan. 2 after their ship sank earlier in the day in the Sea of Japan off Shimane Prefecture, western Japan.

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S. Korean fishing boat flees with Japan Coast Guard officers abo

FUKUOKA, Japan - A South Korean fishing boat (2nd from R) is halted by a Korea Coast Guard vessel (R) and two Japan Coast Guard vessels in the Japan Sea on June 1. The fishing boat suspected of operating illegally in Japan's economic waters fled into South Korean economic waters around with two Japan Coast Guard officers aboard. After seeking help from the Korea Coast Guard, the Japan Coast Guard brought the officers back safely. The photo was provided by the Japan Coast Guard. (Kyodo)

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Japan wants S. Korea to 'understand' survey near disputed isles

TOTTORI, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard survey vessels docked off Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast on April 19 as Japan called on South Korea to ''understand'' its planned maritime survey near the disputed South Korean-controlled islets, called Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Japan demands S. Korea halt maritime survey near isles

TOKYO, Japan - The 2,533-ton South Korean survey ship Ocean-2000 is spotted in a Japan-claimed exclusive economic zone around a pair of disputed islets, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, in the Sea of Japan on July 5. The photo was taken by the Japan Coast Guard. (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea to jointly survey radiation in Sea of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard research ship Kaiyo leaves Moji port in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 7 to survey the level of radiation in the Sea of Japan with South Korean researchers. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea fails to launch missile: S. Korea

An armed police officer stands guard in front of the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on April 15, 2016, the date late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung was born in 1912. North Korea fired a missile from its east coast in the early hours of the same day, but it is believed the launch failed, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese survey ship joins Japan-S. Korea radioactivity survey

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard survey ship Kaiyo heads out to sea from Moji port in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture on Sept. 11 to take part in a joint Japan-South Korea radioactivity survey mission in the southwestern region of the Sea of Japan, including waters close to the disputed Takeshima island, or Dokdo in Korean. The mission, which will last until Sept. 18, is intended to study possible impact of radioactive wastes dumped by the former Soviet Union and Russia. (Kyodo)

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Japanese survey ship joins Japan-S. Korea radioactivity survey

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard survey ship Kaiyo heads out to sea from Moji port in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture on Sept. 11 to take part in a joint Japan-South Korea radioactivity survey mission in the southwestern region of the Sea of Japan, including waters close to the disputed Takeshima island, or Dokdo in Korean. The mission, which will last until Sept. 18, is intended to study possible impact of radioactive wastes dumped by the former Soviet Union and Russia. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea, Japan agree to end standoff over fishing boat chase

FUKUOKA, Japan - A South Korean fishing boat, the Sinpung, is sandwiched between a Korea Coast Guard patrol boat (L) and a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat some 80 kilometers northeast of Japan's Tsushima Island on June 2. The photo was provided by the Japan Coast Guard. (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea end standoff over fishing boat

FUKUOKA, Japan - The chief (L) of South Korea's Ulsan Police Station and the head of the Tsushima office of Japan's Coast Guard shake hands aboard a Korean patrol vessel 80 kilometers off Tsushima Island on June 2 after two countries reached an accord to end a two-day maritime standoff over the control of a Korean fishing boat that rejected inspections by Japanese authorities who suspect it was poaching in Japan's exclusive economic waters. The photo was provided by the Japan Coast Guard. (Kyodo)

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1 body, another crewman found after sinking of freighter

TOBA, Japan - Coast Guard members examine a rescue raft belonging to the South Korean freighter Zenith Light, which sank in the Pacific Ocean off Mie Prefecture on Feb. 14, at Toba Port in the prefecture on Feb. 15. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean freighter sinks in the Pacific

TSU, Japan - A South Korean freighter, the 2,016-ton Zenith Light (photo taken in June 2006 and provided by the fourth Regional Coast Guard Headquarters), apparently sank in stormy weather off central Japan on Feb. 14. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean fishing boat capsizes off Kagoshima Pref., 4 missing

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Four crew members are missing after the 11-ton South Korean fishing vessel 109 Tae Sung capsized in the East China Sea off Kagoshima Prefecture on Dec. 4, the Japan Coast Guard said. Photo provided by the Coast Guard. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean ferry, freighter collide in Kammon Strait

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - The South Korean ferry Panstar Dream (in photo), carrying 347 passengers and crew members, collided with a South Korean cargo ship Nov. 3 in the Kammon Strait between Japan's Honshu and Kyushu islands, Japan Coast Guard officials said. No one was injured. Photo provided by the coast guard. (Kyodo)

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(2) S. Korean ship crashes into breakwater, 6 dead

ISHIKARI BAY, Japan - A crew member of the South Korean cargo ship Marine Osaka holds fast to the mast waiting for rescue at Ishikari Bay New Port on Nov. 13. Six crew members died after strong winds and high waves sent the 5,500-ton vessel at anchor into a breakwater. There were eight South Korean and eight Myanmar crew members on board the ship. Fifteen of them have been rescued, with one still missing, Japan Coast Guard officials said. (Kyodo)

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MSDF ship collides with S. Korean vessel in Kammon Strait

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard staff inspect the damaged Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kurama in Kitakyushu on Oct. 28, 2009. The vessel's bow was damaged in a collision with the South Korean container ship Carina Star the previous night in the Kammon Strait between Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures. (Kyodo)

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MSDF ship collides with S. Korean vessel in Kammon Strait

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Japan Coast Guard staff inspect the damaged Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kurama in Kitakyushu on Oct. 28, 2009. The vessel's bow was damaged in a collision with the South Korean container ship Carina Star the previous night in the Kammon Strait between Yamaguchi and Fukuoka prefectures. (Kyodo)

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Japan to probe sunken mystery ship with camera from Mon.+

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Izu leaves Yokohama port, south of Tokyo, Feb. 22 for the East China Sea. It will probe the wreckage of a suspected North Korean spy boat that sank Dec. 22 last year after an exchange of fire with the coast guard.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers after getting off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea. (Kyodo)

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers after getting off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea. (Kyodo)