Huddled in makeshift shipping container homes on a South Korean waterfront, the relatives of the missing from the Sewol ferry disaster have endured a harrowing wait to recover their dead children. Nearly three years ago Lee Keum-Hui’s daughter Eun-Hwa went on a school trip and never returned. Lee rushed to Jindo, a five-hour drive from … Read more
Salvage operators began raising South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry Wednesday, officials said, nearly three years after the disaster killed more than 300 people and dealt a crippling blow to now-ousted president Park Geun-Hye. Emotional parents of victims — the vast majority of the dead in the country’s worst-ever maritime tragedy were schoolchildren — urged people … Read more
Salvage operators were to begin a test lift of South Korea’s Sewol ferry Wednesday, officials said, nearly three years after it sank killing 304 people and dealing a crippling blow to now ousted president Park Geun-Hye. Emotional parents of victims — the vast majority of the dead in the country’s worst-ever maritime disaster were schoolchildren … Read more