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On April 16, 2014 the Korean-flagged passenger ferry M/V SEWOL sank resulting in a large loss of life of the passengers. While this story will continue to

South Korean President Park Geun Hye apologized over a ferry sinking that left more than three hundred people dead or missing, the nation’s worst maritime

Prosecutors investigating South Korea’s worst maritime disaster in four decades said the captain of the ‘Sewol’ ferry and two crew members are facing a

By Narae Kim SEOUL, April 27 (Reuters) – South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announced his resignation on Sunday over the government response to

By Kyungji Cho April 27 (Bloomberg) — All 15 crew members involved in navigating a South Korean ferry that sank are in custody, the Associated Press

CCTV America spoke with gCaptain’s Rob Almeida on the sinking of the South Korean ferry, Sewol. In his interview he shares his thoughts on the fateful

By Cynthia Kim, Seonjin Cha and Sam Kim April 24 (Bloomberg) — Divers retrieved more bodies from a South Korean ferry that sank last week, as

By Brian Beckcom As I write, reports indicate that at least 100 people are confirmed dead in the latest foreign maritime disaster, the South Korean ferry

By Narae Kim and Meeyoung Cho SEOUL, April 22 (Reuters) – The first distress call from a sinking South Korean ferry was made by a boy with a shaking

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Monday the actions of the captain and crew of a ferry that sank last week with hundreds feared dead were

By Ju-min Park and Jungmin Jang JINDO/MOKPO, South Korea, April 20 (Reuters) – South Korean prosecutors investigating last week’s ferry disaster

South Korean prosecutors investigating a ferry disaster said on Sunday they would seek to extend the detention of the ship's captain and two other crew by 10

By Jungmin Jang and Ju-min Park MOKPO/JINDO, South Korea, April 18 (Reuters) – The vice principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds

Trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for what happened on board the Sewol is a nearly impossible thing to do. At the risk of being too quick

By Narae Kim JINDO, South Korea, April 17 (Reuters) – The captain of the South Korean ferry that capsized off the southwest coast was facing a criminal

Rescuers fought rising winds and waves on Thursday as they searched for hundreds of people, mostly teenage schoolchildren, still missing after a South Korean

As an exclamation point on the seriousness of the tragedy unfolding offshore South Korea, the sunken RoRo-Passenger (RoPax) vessel Sewol is officially the

UPDATE: Six have no been confirmed killed and between 277 and 290 are still missing. By Narae Kim JINDO, South Korea, April 16 (Reuters) – More than 280

Update: Nearly 300 people are believed to be either missing or unaccounted for, according to media reports citing officials. Earlier: A 6825 gross ton RoRo