A diver who went missing during a leisure dive off the coast of Uljin County, North Gyeongsang, was rescued after drifting at sea for about 12 hours, the Coast Guard said Monday.
The Coast Guard belatedly learned that an undocumented migrant fled the authorities — while being transported inland by them — by jumping from a vessel. Though officials immediately pursued him, his whereabouts have remained unknown for three days.
A woman was rescued after being stranded on a coastal rock near Daebu Island in Ansan, Gyeonggi, according to the Korea Coast Guard Station Pyeongtaek on Monday.
A special counsel team raided the Coast Guard's offices on Friday, reopening an investigation into the agency's suspected involvement in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed martial law bid in 2024.
The Korea Coast Guard conducts a joint training exercise to crack down on illegal Chinese fishing vessels in the Yellow Sea near Socheongdo, an island off the coast of Incheon.
Crude oil spilled inside the Onsan National Industrial Complex in Ulsan and flowed into a nearby stream on Saturday. Firefighters and the Ulsan Coast Guard began emergency containment work.
Cuban soldiers killed four people and wounded six others aboard a Florida-registered speed boat that had entered Cuban waters and opened fire on soldiers, the Cuban government said Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.
Five crew members who fell overboard from a cargo ship off the southern coast of Seogwipo, Jeju Island, on Friday were all rescued by the Coast Guard, according to authorities.
S-Oil, together with the Korea Coast Guard and the Korea National Council on Social Welfare, honored nine officers for life-saving acts at sea during the 2025 Hero Maritime Police Officers awards ceremony held at the Mapo Garden Hotel.
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