Affiliated Coordination of Rescue and Salvage in ASEAN+3

On May 12th, 2007 a merchant vessel of Golden Rose (South Korea) sank into near 38 mile from Yentai in China ofter the vessel collided with a container vessel of jinsung (China), leaving all 16 sailors, including seven South Koreans, missing. According to the official report, The Chinese vessel, authorities, and South Korean government did not coordination of rescue and salvage for the sailors and vessel properly as follows; 1) The Chinese vessel left the scene without rescue and salvage of the sailors, 2) Chinese authorities failed to comply with law of the sea that required them to report the collision to South Korea immediately after confirming the accident, and 3) The South Korean government is also being criticized for its slow response to the incident since the government did not set up a response team until 21 hours cfter the incident. In order to reduce this number of sailor missing in future incidents, this research is studied regarding assembling corferences, assigning SRR in ASEAN+3, simplicity to enter other territory waters and cooperative training and education for the SAR.