More than a hundred passengers were still sheltering in place onboard. The 6,825-ton Sewol was carrying 476 people, including 325 students from a high school in Ansan, just south of Seoul, when it sent out a distress signal at 8:58 a.m. in waters 20 kilometers off the island of Byeongpoong. provides an overview of the year’s most-notable people and events. On April 16, 2014, the South Korean ferry Sewol, traveling its usual route from the port city of Inchon to the resort island of Jeju and carrying 476 passengers and crew, unexpectedly began listing to port and within two and a half hours was completely submerged. An editorial in The Huffington Post stated that the governmental reports were like a rubber band, 'increasing at one moment and decreasing at another.' Out of all those killed, there were 250 teenagers from Dawon High School in Ansan who were in their school trip to Jeju. The above video, “In the Absence,” shows what happened inside the M.V. Conspiracy theorieswere also present in the a… According to Park's testimony, after she had used the radar to check that Cho's testimony did not notably differ from that of Park.The court came to the conclusion that Cho's steering led the ship to attempt a 15-degree turn for 40 seconds. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.The ferry, originally built in Japan in 1994, was purchased by Chonghaejin Marine in 2012. The Sewol Ferry Incident. The sinking of the Sewol shocked the nation. But the scene is surprisingly calm. Unlike most articles on Britannica.com, Book of the Year articles are not reviewed and revised after their initial publication.
Get 30% your subscription today. Rather, they are presented on the site as archival content, intended for historical reference only. フェリーなみのうえ, Ferī Naminoue) als Baunummer 1006 von der Werft Hayashikane in Nagasaki für die Fährreederei Ōshima Un’yu (engl. with a double major in Spanish and in theatre arts from Ripon College. Early on Tuesday, South Korean officials said bones had come out of a window of a passenger room during work to drain the ship.
On Tuesday, relatives held a memorial service at sea near the raised ship Just stay where you are.
Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. A majority of the victims were high school students; over 250 of them drowned in the incident. Many obeyed erroneous crew instructions to remain in their cabins as the ship sank. "The ship has come up, but not the nine people inside it,'' Lee Geum-hee, the mother of a missing school girl, told local media. The ship was raised last week after almost three years on the sea floor and put onto a platform to be towed to port. Directed and Produced by Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser The court concluded that Cho, who was flustered by the ship turning faster than expected when he was following Park's order to turn to 145 degrees, was attempting to turn to the left when he took Park's order to mean a turn in the opposite direction. Investigation on ‘Sewol’ sinking does not find exact cause of the accident. As criticism of her handling of the disaster grew stronger, the Park administration established a commission to monitor and prosecute her critics.The aftermath of the sinking is documented in a film, created by two British filmmakers that were living in South Korea during the tragedy. Shipping is regulated by the On 11 November 2014, the Gwangju District Court found Captain Lee Jun-seok guilty of negligence and sentenced him to 36 years' imprisonment.