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(Photo News) Remembering rescue operations

By Korea Herald

Published : Jan. 21, 2015 - 21:37

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Seok Hae-gyun (second from left), former captain of the Korean freighter Samho Jewelry, shakes hands with Lee Guk-jong, trauma surgeon at the medical college of Ajou University who saved the captain’s life, during a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the successful naval operations that rescued the ship and crew from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Hwang Ki-chul (left) also joined the ceremony. (Yonhap) Seok Hae-gyun (second from left), former captain of the Korean freighter Samho Jewelry, shakes hands with Lee Guk-jong, trauma surgeon at the medical college of Ajou University who saved the captain’s life, during a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the successful naval operations that rescued the ship and crew from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Hwang Ki-chul (left) also joined the ceremony. (Yonhap)

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