S. Korea-Hungary summit talks in Vilnius South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (L) shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during their talks in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11, 2023, on the sidelines of a two-day summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (Yonhap)
Bodies from the recent boat sinking in Hungary continue to be found:
South Korean and Hungarian workers prepare to go into the Danube River on June 4, 2019, to search for missing victims in last week’s sinking of a tourist boat in Budapest. (Yonhap)
The five bodies found in the Danube River in the last two days were all confirmed to be South Koreans missing in last week’s deadly sinking of a sightseeing boat in Hungary, officials said Wednesday. That puts the death toll of last Wednesday’s tragedy in central Budapest at 12 Koreans, with 14 others still unaccounted for. Two Hungarian crew members also remain missing. Seven other Korean passengers were rescued right after the accident.
Hungarian workers search for missing victims of a tourist boat sinking in the Danube River in Budapest on May 31, 2019. (Yonhap)
South Korean and Hungarian workers carried out joint operations on Saturday to search for 21 missing victims of this week’s tourist boat sinking in Budapest, officials said, although high waters and strong currents remain tough challenges. They conducted surface-level searches up to 50 kilometers down the Danube River from the site of Wednesday’s disaster that left seven Koreans dead and 21 people missing, including 19 Koreans. The South Korean team, consisting of staff from the Navy and fire agency, was to search the river three times on the day with four boats provided by the Hungarian authorities. In response to requests by South Korea and Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria have also been conducting search operations in parts of the Danube River.
You can read more at the link, but the ROK Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has traveled to Hungary and the Ukranian boat captain that struck the tourist boat has been arrested.
