Oil reaches shore in South Korea's largest oil spill
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-12-08 18:25

Local residents carry baskets full of retrieved crude oil that spreded over a beach following the Friday's oil tankeraccident in Mallipo beach, west of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007. Some 2.7 million gallons of oil gushedFriday from a 146,000-ton Hong Kong-registered supertanker after a barge carrying a crane slammed into it about seven milesoff Mallipo beach. The spill was the country's largest, involving twice as much oil as a spill in 1995. [Agencies]
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