[Photo] A full recovery eight years after oil spill

Posted on : 2016-02-01 18:04 KST Modified on : 2016-02-01 18:04 KST

In this photo from Dec. 2007, local residents clean up Mallipo Beach in South Chungcheong Province, following the collision between a crane barge and the MT Hebei Spirit that resulted in the latter spilling some 10,800 tons of oil into the waters off South Korea’s western coast. The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently announced that the region has fully recovered and returned to pre-spill conditions. (by Kim Myoung-jin, staff photographer)

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