All posts tagged "jindo"

  • A photo from last year shows International tourists enjoying the 'Jindo Dog experience.' (Newsis)
    [NYT] An Island Marred by a Ferry Disaster and Sustained by Dogs

     Jindo, at least before the ferry disaster, was known largely for one thing: its dogs. And Donji-ri is the most dog-famous village on the island. Called Jindo dogs, they are South Korea’s most...

    • Posted May 30, 2014
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  • A relative of a passenger aboard the sunken Sewol ferry weeps as she awaits news on her missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea.
    Bad weather halts search for ferry victims for three days

    JINDO, South Korea, May 12 (Yonhap) — The search for victims of last month’s ferry sinking was suspended Monday for the third consecutive day amid unfavorable weather conditions. A joint team of civilian, government and military rescuers...

    • Posted May 12, 2014
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  • Sewol, a 6,835-ton ferry boat, has left 284 unaccounted for and four dead. / Yonhap
    272 dead, 32 missing

    Updates on developments in the ferry boat sinking. 5/8 - It has been 23 days since the sinking. The body count has risen to 272. 5/7 - The search continues Thursday in Korea as the number confirmed...

    • Posted May 6, 2014
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  • President Park Geun-hye visited a southern port Paengmok of Jindo Island Sunday, where the ferry victims have been camping out , awaiting news of the fate of their loved ones. / Yonhap
    Park visits shipwreck site, meets families of victims

    (YONHAP) President Park Geun-hye visited a southern port Sunday where families of the victims in last month’s ferry accident have been camping out, amid search operations to find the bodies of those still missing from the ship...

    • Posted May 5, 2014
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  • A relative of a passenger aboard the sunken Sewol ferry weeps as she awaits news on her missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea.
    Bad weather stymies search for missing in sunken ferry

    Only one body retrieved over the weekend JINDO, South Korea, April 28 (Yonhap) — Strong winds, high waves and rain effectively halted search operations Monday for more than 100 passengers still missing from a deadly ferry disaster...

    • Posted April 28, 2014
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    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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    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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