Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon has ordered related agencies to do their best to rescue five crewmen missing after their fishing boat capsized overnight.
The PM on Thursday urged defense, marine ministers and the commissioner of the Coast Guard to mobilize all equipment and manpower for the operation.
At 40-past midnight on Thursday, the South Korean-registered fishing boat collided with a Tanzanian cargo ship in waters off Shinan County on Korea's southwestern coast,... leaving one dead and the other five crewmembers missing.
The Coast Guard has yet to find any of the missing crewmen.