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South Korean authorities dispatched two vessels to the scene and put out the fire in 70 minutes.
Kim said the empty Cambodia-registered cargo ship, Yunxing, was carrying a crew of eight Chinese and one from Myanmar.
Kim said coast guard officials plan to question the five survivors on the cause of the fire.