All posts tagged "sewol"

  • ferry
    70 surviving students pay visit to friends’ memorial service

    By Nam Hyun-woo ANSAN — Seventy Danwon High School students who were rescued from the Sewol offered their condolences at a joint altar in Ansan Hwarang Park, Wednesday. The altar commemorates friends and teachers who didn’t make...

    • Posted April 30, 2014
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  • A relative of a passenger aboard the sunken Sewol ferry weeps as she awaits news on her missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea.
    Bad weather stymies search for missing in sunken ferry

    Only one body retrieved over the weekend JINDO, South Korea, April 28 (Yonhap) — Strong winds, high waves and rain effectively halted search operations Monday for more than 100 passengers still missing from a deadly ferry disaster...

    • Posted April 28, 2014
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  • "Hope for a Sewol Miracle" takes place at Wilshire-Vermont Square on Saturday. / Park Sang-hyuk, The Korea Times
    Hundreds gather for ferry memorial mini-concert in Koreatown

    Musicians from “Love In Music” and about 200 people gathered at Wilshire-Vermont Square on Saturday for “Hope for a Miracle on Sewol.” Following a candle prayer, “Love in Music” performed a mini-concert as a memorial of those...

    • Posted April 28, 2014
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  • cyber
    Teens responsible for most online pranks on ferry tragedy

    Police arrest records showed teenagers accounted for most of the police reports on online pranks linked to the Sewol tragedy. The National Police Agency said Friday they screened 112 cases of online reports related to the tragedy...

    • Posted April 28, 2014
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  • Sewol Captain Lee Joon-seok in his underwear is being rescued from the ship as it capsizes by first responders in this still from a video capturing the sinking of the ferry on April 16, which was released by the Coast Guard, Monday. While Lee and other crewmembers were taking flight, other footage shows few people on the decks, with hundreds of students heeding the crew’s instructions and staying inside their cabins. Over 300 people, mostly students on a school trip, have been confirmed dead or listed as missing. / Yonhap
    [HOT LINKS] Cell phone video of ferry’s final moments released

      - “Wow, it’s tilting a lot. We’re tilting to this side. Can’t move.” “You think I’m really gonna die?” “What’s going on?” These are the voices of some of the students on the Sewol ferry as...

    • Posted April 28, 2014
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  • Korean American community leaders put on black ribbons at the memorial service set up inside the Korean American Federation of L.A. Center Thursday. / Park Sang-hyuk, The Korea Times
    L.A. Korean American community to hold nine-day memorial service

    By the Korea Times Los Angeles staff A nine-day memorial service for the victims of the ferry boat tragedy will be held by the Korean American community in Los Angeles. Organizers said Thursday that black ribbons marked...

    • Posted April 25, 2014
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  • ferry
    Broken fingers, bodies tied together reveal the horror of ferry sinking

    They tried to hold on to anything, and each other By Tae Hong Hundreds of second-year high school students, helpless in a sinking ferry boat, trapped and young and terrified — it’s the narrative emerging from a...

    • Posted April 25, 2014
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