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  Korean celebrities remember Sewol via SNS, letters

  South Korean celebrities joined in on the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Sewol sinking Thursday. Actor Kim Woo-bin wrote a handwritten letter for Kim Hye-sun, one of the Danwon High School victims who was known...

  • Posted April 16, 2015
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  A year later, Sewol tragedy continues to haunt South Korea

  The ferry disaster that paralyzed South Korea met its one-year anniversary Thursday. On April 16, 2014, the passenger ferry boat Sewol sank near Jindo Island. It was carrying 476 people, a majority of them the junior class...

  • Posted April 15, 2015
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• Philadelphia Koreans plan memorial, walk for Sewol anniversary

  The Korean American community in Philadelphia is gathering for a memorial and walking marathon in honor of the first anniversary of the Sewol sinking. The memorial will be held inside Ambler Mennonite Church at 7 p.m. on...

  • Posted April 15, 2015
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  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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  Classrooms remain shrines for Sewol victims until ‘spiritual graduation’

  ANSAN, South Korea (AP) — Surrounded by the buzz of regular school life, a few classrooms at Danwon High School stand apart. They have become part shrine, part refuge, part confessional. One year ago a ferry carrying...

  • Posted April 14, 2015
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  A year after Sewol, concert pulls together LA Korean musicians

  By Tae Hong The tragedy that shook South Korea came on a spring day last year. One of the millions to its witness was Hwang Kwangsun, a Korean national who had moved stateside to study music about...

  • Posted April 13, 2015
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  Gov’t study shows recovery of sunken ferry technically possible

  SEJONG, April 10 (Yonhap) — A feasibility study has shown that the physical recovery of a passenger ferry that sank last year may be technically possible, but it has yet to be decided whether to actually salvage...

  • Posted April 10, 2015
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