South Korea struggles to clean up blackened shore after country's largest oil spill

Thousands of people used shovels and buckets Sunday to clean up a devastating oil spill at a scenic beach on South Korea's western coast, some battling headaches and nausea from the stench.

About 7,500 volunteers, local residents, civil servants and members of the coast guard, police and military scooped up oil that began washing ashore at Mallipo beach Saturday from a damaged supertanker, the Coast Guard said.

Still more worked aboard 105 ships along South Korea's western coast trying to clean the sea.

The Coast Guard said late Sunday 514 metric tons (565 tons) of oil had been collected, which would amount to about 5 percent of the total …