We start in Budapest.<br />Nearly two weeks after a sightseeing boat capsized on the Danube River, taking the lives of dozens of people, mostly South Koreans, salvage crews in Hungary are finally set to raise the wreckage.<br />Kim Mok-yeon starts us off.<br />Hungarian authorities announced that salvage operations of the sunken Hableany tourist boat will officially begin at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, which is 1:30 p.m. here in South Korea.<br />Salvage crews have finished binding four wire ropes to the hull of the boat, and have made all the necessary checks and preparations for the lifting.<br /><br />"The checks have been made, the wires are in the right place under the boat, they are connected to the barge, therefore the ship can be lifted soon."<br /><br />They also banned airplanes, helicopters and drones from flying near the accident area until Sunday to prevent any possible disturbances to the process.<br />The plan is to slowly lift the boat by around 5 centimeters at a time in order to ensure what's inside the boat does not get dislodged in the process.<br />Once Hableany is raised from the floor of the river, a joint inspection team of Hungarian and Korean officials plan to search for any bodies that may be inside the vessel.<br />The search for the bodies has been on hold for the past two days with 7 Korean passengers and the Hungarian captain still unaccounted for.<br />The salvage operation is to be carried out privately with more than 40 family members of the victims in attendance.<br />Meanwhile the bodies of four Korean victims along with two survivors arrived back in Korea on Monday.<br /><br />Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News.<br />
