All posts tagged "ferry"

  • Connie Talbot
    Singer Connie Talbot to donate all her concert proceeds to help ferry victims

    British singing prodigy Connie Talbot, who visited Seoul to perform for her Korean fans, requested that all her concert proceeds be used to help the victims of the ferry accident. “We were shocked to hear about the accident,...

    • Posted April 23, 2014
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  • donors
    $100K donators’ group

    Cha Seung-won, Ha Ji-won, Kim Yuna, K.J. Choi join Ryu Hyun-jin and Song Seung-hun By Lee Kyutae Actors Song Seung-hun, Cha Seung-won and Ha Ji-won, figure skater Kim Yuna and golfer K.J. Choi gave big to aid...

    • Posted April 23, 2014
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  • Government officials keep on losing their jobs for inappropriate remark, action

    MOKPO, South Korea, April 22 (Yonhap) — A South Korean coast guard official was relieved of his duties on Tuesday for comments deemed insensitive to the grieving families of the victims of the Sewol ferry disaster. The...

    • Posted April 22, 2014
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  • (Park Sang-hyuk)
    Former S. Korean Prime Minister hopes for healing in wake of ferry tragedy

    At the Korea Times sponsored event held in UCLA, Chung Un-chan says: “We have to try to go back to the normal as soon as possible.” (CNS) -  A former South Korean prime minister visiting UCLA said Tuesday he is hopeful...

    • Posted April 22, 2014
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  • ferry
    Death toll rises to 56

    (Yonhap) Rescue divers combed the sunken ferry Sewol off southwestern coast Sunday in Korea after retrieving more than a dozen bodies from inside the underwater wreck for the first time since the sinking, as hopes fade for...

    • Posted April 20, 2014
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  • ferry
    Death toll rises to 36, no new survivors found

    By Yoon Sung-won, Nam Hyun-woo JINDO ― Only sobs and moans were heard in a gymnasium in Jindo, South Jeolla Province, where friends and family of passengers who went missing in the ferry Sewol’s accident gathered to watch a...

    • Posted April 19, 2014
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  • Players from Danwon High School girls' table tennis team who won the national championship showed their emotional outburst when being awarded. The school's second-year students are major victims of the "Sewol" ferry tragedy. (Courtesy of JTBC)
    School hit by ferry disaster wins table tennis championship

    By Ko Dong-hwan A sad drama swept a table tennis competition Thursday, as Danwon High School, struggling to recover from the “Sewol” ferry tragedy since Wednesday, grabbed a winning trophy. The girl’s team, including three second-year students,...

    • Posted April 18, 2014
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