Oil Spill Reaches South Korea Shoreline - AP

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Source: Associated Press

Oil Spill Reaches South Korea Shoreline

Saturday December 8, 2007 5:16 AM

By JAE-SOON CHANG

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Oil from a damaged supertanker
has reached an ecologically sensitive shoreline on South
Korea's western coast, a Coast Guard official said Saturday.

About four miles of coastline near Mallipo beach, approximately
95 miles southwest of Seoul, has been affected, said Jung
Se-hi, a spokesman at the Coast Guard headquarters in
Incheon. The region is popular for its scenic beaches and is
also the site of fish farms, a national maritime park and an
important rest stop for migrating birds.

Some 2.7 million gallons of oil gushed Friday from a 146,000-
ton Hong Kong-registered supertanker after a barge carrying
a crane slammed into it about seven miles off Mallipo beach.
The spill was the country's largest, involving twice as much
oil as a spill in 1995.

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