All posts tagged "safety"

  • 2015 Hyundai Accent (PRNewsFoto/Hyundai Motor America via AP)
    Hyundai, Kia cars score low in US crash test

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Three cars made by South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its corporate cousin Kia Motors Corp. have received low ratings in a crash test conducted in the United States, an American motor...

    • Posted August 24, 2015
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  • Relatives carrying the portraits of the victims of a South Korean ferry sinking march during a rally demanding to salvage the ferry Sewol off the country's southwest coast before starting the compensation process and thoroughly investigating of truth in Seoul, South Korea. A year ago, as South Korea writhed in grief and fury after more than 300 people, most of them school kids, drowned in the ferry sinking, it seemed things would never be the same. Yet not much has really changed as the first anniversary of the Sewol disaster is marked Thursday, April 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    9 in 10 S. Koreans doubt ferry sinking will inspire improved safety

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A year ago, as South Korea writhed in grief and fury after more than 300 people, most of them school kids, drowned in a ferry sinking, it seemed things would never be...

    • Posted April 15, 2015
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  • Safety Agency
    S. Korea launches new safety agency in response to ferry disaster

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Wednesday formally launched a new safety agency in the wake of April’s ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people, mostly teenage students, and exposed shortcomings in disaster response....

    • Posted November 19, 2014
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