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BBC, CNN, Reuters and the New York Times framed 16 April 2014 as a live sinking on television: a yellow hull on its side, then a nation in mourning. English headlines stressed that most of the dead were school students and that crew had left first. The Korean legal vocabulary — wilful negligence, special act, Coast Guard reform — arrived later and thinner.
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Sinking of MV Sewol · paras 2
Safety law after Sewol tightened domestic ferry inspection, cargo declarations and the duty to evacuate. Whether those rules changed practice on every coastal route is a separate compliance question. The criminal case against the captain is not open. Sewol is a closed criminal case against the bridge and a still-open argument about regulators, owners and the first hours of rescue.
Sinking of MV Sewol · paras 1
BBC, CNN, Reuters and the New York Times framed 16 April 2014 as a live sinking on television: a yellow hull on its side, then a nation in mourning. English headlines stressed that most of the dead were school students and that crew had left first. The Korean legal vocabulary — wilful negligence, special act, Coast Guard reform — arrived later and thinner.
Sinking of MV Sewol · paras 3
After the 2015 life sentence, English coverage shortened into anniversary features and the 2017 salvage. The Park impeachment brought Sewol back as a political keyword. Few English accounts sat with the Gwangju High Court opinion the way they sat with the images of the list. The ferry listed and capsized on the morning of 16 April 2014 in the Yellow Sea near Jindo, on the Incheon–Jeju route.
Sinking of MV Sewol · How many people died?
Korean official accounting used in the trials is 304 dead or missing out of 476 aboard, with 172 rescued. About 250 of the dead were Danwon High School students. Early search tallies of recovered bodies and still-missing persons shifted by single digits as the salvage continued.
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After the 2015 life sentence, English coverage shortened into anniversary features and the 2017 salvage. The Park impeachment brought Sewol back as a political keyword. Few English accounts sat with the Gwangju High Court opinion the way they sat with the images of the list. The ferry listed and capsized on the morning of 16 April 2014 in the Yellow Sea near Jindo, on the Incheon–Jeju route.
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Korean official accounting used in the trials is 304 dead or missing out of 476 aboard, with 172 rescued. About 250 of the dead were Danwon High School students. Early search tallies of recovered bodies and still-missing persons shifted by single digits as the salvage continued.
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