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The sinking of Sewol is the deadliest ferry disaster in South Korea since 14 December 1970, when the sinking of the ferry Namyoung killed 326 out of the 338 people aboard. [ 185 ] [ 186 ] Investigation
MV Sewol (Hangul: 세월호, Hanja: 世越號, Beyond the World) [1] [note 1] was a South Korean vehicle-passenger ferry, built and previously operated in Japan. She operated between Incheon and Jeju. On 16 April 2014, Sewol capsized and sank with the loss of 304 passengers and crew.
MV Seohae: Sank near Wido island, Jeolla Province. The ship was carrying 362 passengers (141 more than its capacity) and heavy freight in bad weather. [3] 292 2014 April 16 MV Sewol: Capsized while carrying 476 people, mostly secondary school students from Danwon High School who were travelling from Incheon towards Jeju. [4]
On the morning of April 16, 2014, the Sewol sank with 476 passengers and crew on board. Of the 304 people killed, 250 were students from the Danwon High School in Ansan.
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 been incredibly hard. Some of the mothers ...
Chonghaejin Marine Company's Most notable ferry is MV Sewol, which sank on April 16, 2014 with the loss of 304 lives, among them being 250 high school students on a field trip. Some other Ferries include Chonghaejin Express No. 1, which accidentally collided with an oil tanker in 2003, and Ohamana, which was retired after the sinking of her ...
The ferry Sewol capsized and sank on 16 April 2014, resulting in 304 people dead or missing, [37] [38] the second worst ferry disaster in South Korean history. [39] [40] Sewol was operated by the company Chonghaejin Marine, of which Yoo Byung-eun was the former chairman. [41]
Yoo Byung-eun (Korean: 유병언; 11 February 1941 – 12 June 2014), also known by the art name Ahae, [3] was a South Korean clergyman, businessman and photographer.. Yoo became the focus of Park Geun-hye's administration shortly after the sinking of MV Sewol in April 2014.