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South Korea ferry disaster

South Korea ferry disaster 10 years on

15 Apr 2024 - 6:46PM

Mental health

‘There is a huge pressure’: the toxic cocktail of issues in suicide hot spot

20 May 2023 - 11:15AM

Coronavirus pandemic

Korean cults: missing link in Covid-19, Sewol ferry, Park’s downfall

1 Mar 2020 - 2:26PMvideocam

South Korea

Family of Sewol ferry owner must pay Seoul US$146m for 2014 disaster

The Sewol ferry sank in 2014, killing 304 people, in one of South Korea’s worst maritime disasters.

17 Jan 2020 - 8:57PM

South Korean rescue boats and fishing boats approach the sinking South Korean ferry Sewol in the waters off Jindo, South Korea, on April 16, 2014. More than 300 people died, mostly school pupils. Photo: AP

Asian cinema: Korean films

Review | Birthday: mournful Korean drama set after Sewol ferry disaster

Lead actors play estranged parents mourning their son, killed in real-life sinking; the boy’s mother hasn’t accepted his death, and wants a divorce. Those looking for a film about the disaster and its aftermath will be disappointed.

28 May 2019 - 5:00PM

Religion

What’s behind South Korea’s attraction to fringe churches?

The appeal of these ‘cults’ may reveal a grim truth about South Korean society and the way the groups address a search for meaning not found elsewhere.

19 May 2019 - 4:08PM

South Korea

South Korea court orders state compensate victims of 2014 ferry sinking

19 Jul 2018 - 10:59PM

It was the first time the court acknowledged the state’s liability for one of the nation’s worst maritime disasters

First human remains believed found on Sewol since 2014 sinking

28 Mar 2017 - 10:45PM

Three years after sinking, disaster ferry lifted from sea bottom

23 Mar 2017 - 10:06PM

Further delays ahead before sunken Sewol ferry gets raised from seabed

17 Oct 2016 - 8:01PM

Rescue operations are underway after the ferry Sewol sank in waters off Jindo Island, in the southwestern province of South Jeolla, South Korea, in 2014. Photo: EPA

Two years after Sewol tragedy, agony continues for families of drowned children

16 Apr 2016 - 1:11PM

A mother of a victim who was on board the sunken ferry leaves a message on a desk used by her child at an empty classroom. Photo: Reuters

China's state-run Shanghai Salvage wins US$73 million contract to help raise sunken South Korean ferry

4 Aug 2015 - 9:03PM

South Korean ferry captain sees prison term increased to life over deadly sea disaster

The South Korean ferry captain responsible for last year’s disaster that killed more than 300 people, mostly schoolchildren, was given an increased sentence of life in prison today by an appellate court that convicted him of homicide.

28 Apr 2015 - 9:32PMvideocam

South Korean President Park Geun-hye vows to raise sunken ferry Sewol

South Korea's president vowed to raise the sunken Sewol ferry yesterday, but failed to appease grieving relatives on the first anniversary of the disaster that claimed 304 lives.

21 Apr 2015 - 9:55AMvideocam

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center front, passes by yellow ribbons tied with messages for the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol as she arrives to offer her condolences to the bereaved relatives of the victims at a port in Jindo. Photo: AP

Angry and divided, South Korea mourns on anniversary of Sewol ferry disaster

A day of mourning for the 304 victims of the Sewol ferry sinking was overtaken by acrimony on Thursday, as organisers called off a ceremony planned to mark its one-year anniversary to protest against the South Korean government’s response to the disaster.

16 Apr 2015 - 9:13PM

People release yellow balloons during a ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster at the southern island of Jindo. Photo: AFP

Homes with broken hearts: how South Korean parents cope after Sewol ferry disaster

16 Apr 2015 - 7:54PM

South Korean relatives mourn victims of Sewol ferry disaster a year on

More than 100 relatives of victims of South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster tearfully cast flowers into the sea yesterday at an emotional memorial event on the eve of the tragedy's first anniversary.

16 Apr 2015 - 10:53AM

South Korean head of Sewol operator jailed for 10 years for manslaughter

The head of the company that operated South Korea's ill-fated Sewol ferry was sentenced to 10 years in prison, after being convicted of manslaughter over the disaster that killed more than 300 people.

21 Nov 2014 - 4:15AM

Kim Han-sik, CEO of Chonghaejin Marine, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Photo: AP

South Korea ferry disaster families furious at trial verdicts

12 Nov 2014 - 12:50PM

South Korea ferry disaster captain jailed for 36 years but acquitted of homicide

The captain of the South Korean disaster ferry Sewol was sentenced to 36 years in prison for negligence and abandoning passengers when his ship sank in April.

12 Nov 2014 - 12:52PMvideocam

South Korea ferry owner’s son jailed three years for embezzlement

5 Nov 2014 - 6:08PM

The Sewol ferry sank in April with more than 450 people on board. Photo: EPA

Body of Sewol victim retrieved on what would have been 17th birthday

Hwang In-yeol and his wife waited seven years to have a child, and then she was born on October 29, 1997. After a ferry disaster in April that killed her and 303 others, the couple waited again for nearly seven months to see Ji-hyeon's body.

31 Oct 2014 - 5:24AM

Hwang In-yeol and his wife, Shim Myeong-seop, blow out candles on a birthday cake for their late daughter Ji-hyeon. Photo: AP

Body found in sunken Sewol, six months after ferry sank off South Korea coast

The first body found in three months was being recovered Tuesday from the sunken South Korean ferry, increasing the official death toll to 295, officials said.

28 Oct 2014 - 6:47PM

Update | South Korean prosecutors seek death penalty for captain of doomed ferry Sewol

South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people, most of them schoolchildren, dead or missing.

27 Oct 2014 - 6:57PMvideocam

Anger, anguish six months after South Korea ferry disaster

15 Oct 2014 - 7:34PM

A boy prays near paper ships with messages to the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol at a memorial altar in Seoul. Photo: AP

Controversy over ferry tragedy piece rocks Busan film festival

The world premiere of the Korean documentary Diving Bell (or The Truth Shall Not Sink with Sewol) cast a long shadow at the 10-day 19th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF).

12 Oct 2014 - 6:26AM

Lee Yong-kwan says once they made the decision to screen the film, they had to be responsible for the decision.

Sewol ferry disaster captain admits error in leaving inexperienced crew member at helm, denies playing on phone

The captain at the heart of South Korea's ferry disaster acknowledged during his murder trial that he had erred in leaving an inexperienced crew member at the helm when the vessel capsized.

8 Oct 2014 - 3:11AM

South Korean driver of Sewol owner gives himself up to prosecutors

The driver of the late owner of the ferry that sunk in South Korea turned himself in yesterday, potentially unlocking the mystery of the man's final days.

29 Jul 2014 - 10:05PM

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South Korea ferry disaster

On April 16, 2014, a passenger ferry sank off the southern coast of South Korea The 6,825-tonne ferry, which had sailed out of the western port of Incheon the previous evening, ran into trouble some 20 kilometres (13 miles) off the island of Byungpoong. Of the 450 passengers on board the ferry bound for the southern resort island of Jeju, 325 were students from a high school in Ansan, south of Seoul.

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9 September, 2024