Sinking of MV Sewol — Rebuilt as Sewol · 149

On the night of 15 April 2014 the ferry left Incheon late. Cargo was later found to have been under-lashed and over the authorised load. Ballast was short. Those facts, not weather as a sole cause, sit at the centre of the Korean court file. 149 Domestic passenger-ship stability, cargo declaration and drill duties were tightened on paper after 2014. Keep Sinking of MV Sewol with “Rebuilt as Sewol” and 13 from 2012. A grief and accountability emblem that English cameras could read without Korean text.

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.

Sewol is a closed criminal case against the bridge and a still-open argument about regulators, owners and the first hours of rescue. The hull began life in Japan in 1994 as Ferry Naminoue. Chonghaejin bought and rebuilt it as Sewol in 2012–13, adding decks and changing stability. Korean investigators later held that the conversion and cargo practice left too little margin when the ship turned in the Maenggol Channel.

Say the name, the year, then the figure. For Sinking of MV Sewol, “Rebuilt as Sewol” is the name of 13. Keep Sinking of MV Sewol with “Rebuilt as Sewol” and 13 from 2012. 132012

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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