Picture of the Day: Taean Miracle
This composite file photo shows an aerial view of Mallipo Beach (top) in Taean, South Chungcheong Province, covered with crude oil from a supertanker after it collided with a maritime crane on Dec. 7, 2007, and, at bottom, the same view of the beach on Dec. 5, 2017. The collision took place in waters off Taean, leaking 12,547 kiloliters of oil that subsequently hit the country’s pristine west coast, devastating fish farms and beaches. The western coast and sea recovered with the sacrifices of more than 1.2 million volunteers a decade after the country’s worst-ever accident of its kind. (Yonhap)
That’s a shame.
They finally got a black sand beach in Korea and they had to go ruin it.
I volunteered for two days, scrubbing oil from rocks and starfish from Osan back when this happened. I was happy that when I visited this summer that Taean had recovered nicely. Other than mudfest, these beaches don’t seem to get as overwhelmed as the ones on the East coast and Ilike going back to visit.