Oil spills from a cargo ship off the coast of Yeosu...Coast Guard "Emergency Control"

At around 4:20 a.m. today (3rd), some of the low-sulfur oil leaked from a 40,000-ton cargo ship that was refueling at sea in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do.An oil slick of 200m long and 10m wide has been created in the sea due to the accident of

, and the Coast Guard is conducting a control operation.

The Coast Guard believes that oil flowed through the air circulation passage in the process of receiving fuel oil, and plans to investigate the exact circumstances and outflow as soon as the control work is completed.