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All posts tagged "ferry"

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  Sunken ferry captain gets life imprisonment for murder

  GWANGJU, April 28 (Yonhap) — The captain of the sunken ferry Sewol was sentenced to a life term for murder at an appeals court here Tuesday. Overturning a lower court ruling that acquitted Lee Joon-seok of murder,...

  • Posted April 28, 2015
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  Risk and worry await S. Korea’s work to lift doomed ferry

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Salvaging the corroded, 6,800-ton ferry Sewol from deep beneath a channel notorious for dangerous currents will be difficult, expensive and potentially risky. It will also be one more major headache for a...

  • Posted April 27, 2015
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  Seoul announces plans to retrieve sunken ferry

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea announced plans Wednesday to salvage the ferry that sunk off the country’s southwest coast a year earlier, claiming 304 lives. The retrieval will likely begin in September and take up to 18...

  • Posted April 22, 2015
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  S. Korean gov’t concludes physical recovery of sunken ferry possible

  SEJONG (Yonhap) — A technical review has concluded the physical recovery of a passenger ferry that sank last year will be possible, the government said Monday, although a decision on whether the country will actually salvage the...

  • Posted April 20, 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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  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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  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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