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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. Fourteen crew members received prison terms.
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Sinking of MV Sewol · paras 2
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. After 08:30 the ship took a turn, listed and did not recover. Cabin speakers told passengers to wait. The captain and several crew left the vessel.
Sinking of MV Sewol · paras 2
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. Fourteen crew members received prison terms.
Sinking of MV Sewol · paras 2
Regulators and Coast Guard officers were dismissed or convicted on related charges. Prime Minister Chung Hong-won offered to resign. The so-called seven-hour gap in President Park Geun-hye’s public response became a political file of its own and later coloured the 2016–17 impeachment debate, though the wreck’s technical cause was not a presidential act.
Sinking of MV Sewol · paras 1
The Sewol Special Act of 2014 created a family-centred investigation framework. Later commissions disagreed about how far to pursue state responsibility. The hull lift in March 2017 was sold as a promise to recover the remaining missing and to let the ship itself be read as evidence.
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Regulators and Coast Guard officers were dismissed or convicted on related charges. Prime Minister Chung Hong-won offered to resign. The so-called seven-hour gap in President Park Geun-hye’s public response became a political file of its own and later coloured the 2016–17 impeachment debate, though the wreck’s technical cause was not a presidential act.
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The Sewol Special Act of 2014 created a family-centred investigation framework. Later commissions disagreed about how far to pursue state responsibility. The hull lift in March 2017 was sold as a promise to recover the remaining missing and to let the ship itself be read as evidence.
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