S. Korean oil tanker arrives home via Red Sea

A South Korean oil tanker is moored at a pier of refiner GS Caltex Corp. in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, southwestern South Korea, on May 8, 2026. The tanker, loaded with 2 million barrels of crude oil, left the Saudi port of Yanbu in mid-April and exited via an alternative route on the Red Sea, marking the first shipment of crude oil to the nation since the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz amid the prolonged war in the Middle East. (Yonhap)

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