Sinking of MV Sewol — Capsizes off Jindo · 193
Of the 304 dead or missing, 250 were Danwon High School students. English reports used that school-trip fact as the moral centre of the story. Korean law treated the same fact as aggravation in the crew trials and as the reason for special investigation acts. 193 The Jeju sailing departs behind schedule with a school party and commercial cargo aboard. Keep Sinking of MV Sewol with “Capsizes off Jindo” and 16 from 2014. The list begins in the morning in the Maenggol Channel. 172 people are rescued; 304 are later counted dead or missing.
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, “Capsizes off Jindo” is the name of 16. Keep Sinking of MV Sewol with “Capsizes off Jindo” and 16 from 2014. 162014
Figures to keep
- Year in the file
- 2014
- Figure that fixes it
- 16
- Case
- Sinking of MV Sewol
- Line that was public
- Capsizes off Jindo
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