{"id":1373,"date":"2026-05-04T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/1373\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:03:07","slug":"seoul-says-explosion-and-fire-on-south-korean-ship-in-hormuz-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/1373\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul says \u2018explosion and fire\u2019 on South Korean ship in Hormuz strait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seoul said on Monday that an \u201cexplosion and fire\u201d had struck a South Korean ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial Middle Eastern waterway effectively blocked following US-Israeli attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n

The foreign ministry said that, at around 8.40pm in Seoul, \u201can explosion and fire occurred on a vessel operated by a South Korean shipping company \u2026 anchored in waters near the United Arab Emirates inside the Strait of Hormuz\u201d.<\/p>\n

There had been \u201cno casualties to date\u201d among the 24 crew members on board, who include six South Koreans and 18 foreign nationals, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cause of the explosion and fire, as well as the specific extent of the damage, is currently being investigated,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The vessel involved, the HMM Namu, is a cargo ship of almost 180 metres (590 feet) sailing under the flag of Panama, data from tracking site MarineTraffic showed.<\/p>\n

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02:45<\/p>\n

Indonesian seafarer among 20,000 stranded for months as Strait of Hormuz remains blocked<\/p>\n

Indonesian seafarer among 20,000 stranded for months as Strait of Hormuz remains blocked<\/p>\n

Seoul\u2019s announcement came after Iranian state media said on Monday that Tehran\u2019s navy had fired \u201cwarning shots\u201d in the strait, following the entry of American cruisers into the Gulf under a plan to help trapped commercial vessels leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seoul said on Monday that an \u201cexplosion and fire\u201d had struck a South Korean ship in the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1380,1378,1377,1374,114,1375,325,1325,112,33,116,125,1379,1376],"class_list":{"0":"post-1373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seoul","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-gulf","10":"tag-hmm-namu","11":"tag-hormuz","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-iranian","14":"tag-middle-east","15":"tag-panama","16":"tag-seoul","17":"tag-south-korea","18":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","19":"tag-tehran","20":"tag-united-arab-emirates","21":"tag-us-israeli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}