Fishing boat overturns, 3 rescued, 6 in search
A fishing boat with nine crewmen was capsized at the coast of Yokjido island, Tongyeong. Three of them were found unconscious.
The coast guard presumes that two of three are foreigners and one Korean.
12 Guardship, four marine ships, and six aircrafts, along with rescuers are in search of the missing crew members.
Two Korean including the captain and seven Indonesian were aborad on the 28 ton boat.
Forming a fleet with another ship, the fishing boat departed Hanrim Harbor in Jeju at 10:36 a.m. on March. 7, and worked near coast of Yokji island.
One of the ship from the fleet reported Jeju Fishing Boat Safety and Fishing Bureau regarding the disconnection with the boat at 6:02 a.m., and later at 6: 43 a.m., the ship was found capsized.
The coast guard reported that the weather conditions in the near area s not bad enough to impact the rescue.
Korea ranks last in glass-ceiling index
South Korea ranked last among 29 OECD member nations in the working conditions for women, according to UK weekly megazine The Economist.
The Economist released the glass-ceiling index for OECD member countries since 2013, reflecting factors such as women's labor participation rate, gender education and wage disparity, the proportion of women in high-position, child care expense, and gender parental leave index.
The low ranking indicates that working condition for women is poor.
Iceland maintained its first positon from the previous year. Sweden, Norway, and Finaland followed, indicating that North European countries have relatively favorable working conditions for woen.
France, Portugal, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, and Austrila were positioned from 5th to 10th. Austria, Spain, NewZeland, Canada, Slovakia, Italy, and the Czech Republic followed.
Along with South Korea, Switzerland (26th), Japan (27th) , Republic of Turkiye (28th), remain in the lowest group along for years.
South Korea mained last from the the previous year in gender income disparity, displaying 31.1 percent difference between men and women. In tems of labor participation proportion, women lagged 17.2 percent points behind men, placing Korea at 27th, followed by Republic of Turkiye and Itay.
Regarding proportion of women in administrative postion placed 28th, second from the last. Considering that the average proportion among OECD member nations were 33.8, Korea's 16.3% was dissapointing, the Economist said.