But as a stunned nation took stock after the Sewol ferry disaster, people hoped it might not be too late to make sure this could never happen again: Officials had promised to finally take on a ...

“I feel so sorry for my child, thinking how he suffered, I wasn’t there to offer him anything,” Lim Young-jae, who lost his son in the Sewol ferry disaster, told CNN. The Sewol sank on April ...

HWASEONG, South Korea — On April 16, 2014, my son Su-hyeon Park died in the Sewol ferry disaster, along with 249 of his high school classmates. They were on an overnight trip. The world watched ...

The divers stopped searching months ago because of the winter and water conditions, and the South Korean ferry remains on the bottom of the sea floor. The Sewol sank on April 16, killing 304 ...

TOKYO — The Sewol ferry, which sank off the coast of South Korea almost three years ago, claiming 304 lives, emerged from the water Thursday as a huge salvage operation got underway. The sight ...

Mourners visit Jindo Port, previously known as Paengmok Port, in Jindo County, South Jeolla, on April 14, two days ahead of the 11th anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster. [HWANG HEE-GYU] JINDO ...

The captain of the Sewol ferry, which sank in South Korea last April, has been found guilty of murder on appeal and sentenced to life imprisonment, according to a court in the southern city of ...

More than 300 people, mostly students, died in 2014 when a ferry boat sank. SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's court has ordered the government and a shipping company to pay compensation to the ...

Kim Hye-kyung (2nd from L), the wife of Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, visits a port in the ...

The 15 crew staffers were the first ones to escape when the Sewol ferry started to sink. The Gwangju District Court in southern South Korea acquitted Lee on murder charges but said he was ...

ANSAN, South Korea, April 16 (Reuters) - South Korea remembered the 304 people, most of them school children, who died on the Sewol ferry on the 10th anniversary of its sinking on Tuesday ...

“I feel so sorry for my child, thinking how he suffered, I wasn’t there to offer him anything,” Lim Young-jae, who lost his son in the Sewol ferry disaster, told CNN. The Sewol sank on April ...