President Yoon said, "All available resources and manpower are mobilized to search and rescue lives."

President Yoon Suk Yeol was briefed on the sinking of a ship in the sea near Biyangdo Island in Jeju at around 4:33 a.m. today and urgently ordered the government to do its best to search and rescue lives.President Yoon

ordered the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries to do their best to search and rescue lives by mobilizing all available resources and manpower at the site, with the Korea Coast Guard at the center.

It also ordered the safety of rescuers to be careful, Jeong Hye-jeon, a spokesman, said in a written briefing.