“I feel so sorry for my child, thinking how he suffered, I wasn’t there to offer him anything,” Lim Young-jae, who lost his son in the Sewol ferry disaster, told CNN. The Sewol sank on April ...

The divers stopped searching months ago because of the winter and water conditions, and the South Korean ferry remains on the bottom of the sea floor. The Sewol sank on April 16, killing 304 ...

The captain of the Sewol ferry, which sank in South Korea last April, has been found guilty of murder on appeal and sentenced to life imprisonment, according to a court in the southern city of ...

But as a stunned nation took stock after the Sewol ferry disaster, people hoped it might not be too late to make sure this could never happen again: Officials had promised to finally take on a ...

On April 16, 2014, the Sewol ferry, which was sailing from Incheon to Jeju, sank. The ferry went down at around 8:50 a.m., when Koreans were on their way to work and school. The news shocked the ...

Mourners visit Jindo Port, previously known as Paengmok Port, in Jindo County, South Jeolla, on April 14, two days ahead of the 11th anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster. [HWANG HEE-GYU] JINDO ...

Then, on April 16, 2014, the Sewol ferry sank off the country’s south coast, resulting in more than 300 deaths. Kwon’s younger brother, Kwon Oh-cheon, was among the many high school students ...

The 15 crew staffers were the first ones to escape when the Sewol ferry started to sink. The Gwangju District Court in southern South Korea acquitted Lee on murder charges but said he was ...

Kim Hye-kyung (2nd from L), the wife of Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, visits a port in the ...

The sinking of the Sewol ferry has left a scar on the psyche of South Korea, more than five years after the devastating tragedy occurred. On the morning of April 16, 2014 the passenger ship with ...

A South Korean court ruled on Friday that the children of the late owner of the Sewol ferry that sank in 2014, killing over 300 people, should reimburse the government for about US$146 million it ...

“I feel so sorry for my child, thinking how he suffered, I wasn’t there to offer him anything,” Lim Young-jae, who lost his son in the Sewol ferry disaster, told CNN. The Sewol sank on April ...