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Sinking of MV Sewol (2012): Rebuilt as Sewol

Open Sinking of MV Sewol in the bound newspapers at 2012. The line the paper held is “Rebuilt as Sewol,” and the figure printed with it is 13. Do not use the same verb for rumour and for a verdict. The sailing is one night and one morning. The legal and salvage timeline runs three years in public view.

On 16 April 2014 the ferry MV Sewol capsized in the Yellow Sea; 304 people died or remain missing, and South Korean courts later convicted the captain and crew. MV Sewol, a Chonghaejin Marine ferry on the Incheon–Jeju run, listed and capsized on the morning of 16 April 2014 near the Maenggol Channel off Jindo in the Yellow Sea. Of 476 people aboard, 172 were rescued. Courts and the government have treated 304 as dead or missing — most of them students and teachers from Danwon High School in Ansan on a trip. This page does not describe the trapped decks.

Investigations found illegal modifications, overloaded cargo, inadequate ballast and a crew that left while cabin announcements told passengers to stay in place. Captain Lee Joon-seok was sentenced to 36 years for negligence in November 2014. The Gwangju High Court in April 2015 substituted homicide by wilful negligence and a life term. The Supreme Court of Korea upheld that life sentence on 12 November 2015.

The hull was raised on 23 March 2017. Special statutes created investigation commissions and a public memorial politics that outlasted the Park Geun-hye presidency. English-language coverage treated the wreck as a national grief story and a state-failure story more than as a Korean statutory case.

In 2012, Sinking of MV Sewol keeps 13 and “Rebuilt as Sewol.” Change the verb when the status changes.2012

Figures to keep

Year in the file
2012
Figure that fixes it
13
Case
Sinking of MV Sewol
Line that was public
Rebuilt as Sewol

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