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Eleven years have passed since the Sewol ferry disaster. On the 11th anniversary of the Sewol ferry incident, stars from the entertainment industry expressed their condolences in their own ways.
Gently touching a ring on her left thumb engraved with “Cho Eun-jeong,” the name of her daughter, Park Jeong-hwa stood at the podium and began to speak. “Today we are going to learn about ...
MUAN COUNTY, South Korea − South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation as investigators worked to ...
Jeyup S. Kwaak was a general news reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Seoul, South Korea. He covered South Korean and North Korean politics, economy, society and culture.
In the years following the disaster, the museum’s conference rooms ... about when we would have the opportunity to address the Sewol tragedy again on such a significant scale after this ...
In a short-answer poll taken by Hankyoreh newspaper in December 2014, the Sewol disaster was voted the second most important historical event in South Korea since the country’s independence ...
adding that those responsible for the disaster had yet to be held accountable. On the morning of April 16, 2014, the Sewol sank with 476 passengers and crew on board. Of the 304 people killed ...
The accident and botched rescue triggered nationwide fury. The ship's "incompetent" crew were jailed, the wreckage of the Sewol ferry lifted, and South Korea's then-president Park Geun-hye ...
The disaster was blamed on a deadly combination ... said in an interview on April 13 with the daily Hankook Ilbo. “The Sewol was already tilting at 50 to 60 degrees when rescuers arrived, ...
Jung Sung-wook's teenage son was one of 304 people who died when the overloaded Sewol ferry capsized off South Korea's southern coast on April 16, 2014. Almost all the victims were schoolchildren ...
ANSAN, South Korea, April 12 (Reuters) - For Lee Mi-kyung, whose son was one of the 250 children who died in South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster 10 years ago, coping with the grief and anger has ...