Captain Lee, owner Yoo, President Park, the Coast Guard leadership, the prime minister and the Ansan school community.
Korean courts named the crew. Korean politics named the president’s hours. Families named the school.
English profiles often stopped at the captain’s photograph. The file is wider.
Captain of MV Sewol
Left the ship without a timely evacuation order. Sentenced to life in 2015 for homicide by wilful negligence after a 2014 negligence-only trial. The Supreme Court held that abandoning command made survival from inside the hull effectively impossible.
Chonghaejin owner figure
Sought as the face of the operating group. Found dead in June 2014; identification followed in July. Corporate and family-network cases continued without a living principal owner in the dock.
President of South Korea
Her delayed public appearance on 16 April became the “seven hours” controversy. It did not cause the list, but it became part of the later impeachment atmosphere in 2016–17.
Korea Coast Guard commissioner
Dismissed as the rescue command was judged too slow to enter the hull. The Coast Guard as an institution was later broken up and rebuilt — a structural aftershock of the first hours.
Prime minister
Offered resignation in May 2014 as the political price of the disaster. English wires treated the offer as a ritual of responsibility; Korean debate asked whether any minister could answer for cargo rules.
Ansan passengers and bereaved
A single school trip supplied most of the dead. Families drove the Special Act, the yellow-ribbon memorial language and the demand to raise the hull. This page names the community, not individual minors.
The convicted names are adult crew and some officials. The memorial names are mostly a school roll, held by families and the city of Ansan.
Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.