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  Audrey Hepburn’s son to create ferry memorial in S. Korea

  By Park Sojung SEOUL (Yonhap) – The oldest son of late actress Audrey Hepburn is creating a forest in South Korea to commemorate the hundreds who were killed or went missing when a ferry capsized last year,...

  • Posted April 8, 2015
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  Recovery of sunken ferry Sewol to cost over $110 million: gov’t

  SEJONG, April 8 (Yonhap) — South Korea is projected to spend more than 550 billion won (US$504 million) for a complete recovery from last year’s tragic sinking of a passenger ferry with the hoisting of the sunken...

  • Posted April 8, 2015
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  Families of Sewol victims shave their heads in protest

  By Jung Min-ho Families of the Sewol ferry disaster victims have refused compensation the government offered for last year’s ferry sinking, which left more than 300 people dead. At the Gwanghwamun Plaza, central Seoul, Thursday, the families...

  • Posted April 3, 2015
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  Sewol operator chief gets 10-year jail term

  GWANGJU (Yonhap) — A district court on Thursday sentenced the head of the sunken ferry Sewol operator to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of more than 300 people. Kim Han-sik, chief executive...

  • Posted November 20, 2014
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  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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  Former admiral named head of new S. Korean safety agency

  By Kang Seung-woo President Park Geun-hye named former Navy Admiral Park In-yong, 62, as head of a newly established agency for public safety Tuesday. The new organization has been set up to strengthen safety in the wake...

  • Posted November 18, 2014
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  Gov’t announces end to search operations on sunken ferry

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — The government on Tuesday announced an end to its near seven-months-long search for people still missing in April’s deadly ferry sinking off the country’s southwest coast. The 6,825-ton ferry Sewol sank in waters near...

  • Posted November 10, 2014
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