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South Korea ferry disaster

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September 2017

  • South Korea launches ballistic missiles in simulated attack on North Korea - video

    South Korea has responded to Sunday’s nuclear test by North Korea with a huge show of military force and moves to boost its ability to counter missile attacks from its neighbour.

March 2017

  • A salvage worker stands on top of the sunken ferry Sewol during an operation to resurface it in the sea off Jindo, South Korea, on Friday.

    South Korea's Sewol ferry emerges amid hopes last passengers will be found

  • The sunken ferry Sewol is raised during its salvage operations on the sea off Jindo, South Korea.

    South Korean ferry in which hundreds died raised after three years

October 2015

  • Kim Han-sik has been jailed for seven years over the Sewol ferry disaster.

    South Korea ferry boss given seven years' jail for Sewol disaster

    Court upholds Kim Han-sik’s conviction and sentencing for overloading of ship, which sank with the loss of 304 lives, mostly teenagers on a school trip

September 2015

  • South Korean coast guard members search for missing people after a fishing boat capsized at sea near the southwestern island of Jeju on Sunday.

    South Korean coastguard and navy search for survivors of fatal capsizing

    At least 10 people are dead and an unknown number missing after a fishing boat capsized off South Korea’s southern coast

May 2015

  • The remains of the Sampoong Department store on the 29 June 1995 just hours after it collapsed, when air conditioning units on the roof crashed through to the top floor.

    A history of cities in 50 buildings
    Learning from Seoul's Sampoong Department Store disaster – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 44

    After a string of ill-considered decisions led to the collapse of Seoul’s luxury department store and the death of 502 people in 1995, the disaster continues to offers an important lesson to other cities urbanising at such an impressive pace

April 2015

  • GWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA - APRIL 28:  Judges sit to preside over verdicts of the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol's crew members are charged with negligence and abandonment of passengers in the disaster at the Gwangju High Court on April 28, 2015 in Gwangju, South Korea. The appeal trial concluded life in prison to the captain of Sewol ferry, jailed over the sinking that claimed more than 300 lives.  (Photo by Ahn Young-Joon - Pool/Getty Images)

    South Korean ferry captain's sentence revised to life in prison for homicide

  • Tribute at memorial

    South Korean president's vow to raise Sewol fails to appease angry relatives

November 2014

  • Kim Han-sik, chief executive of Chonghaejin Marine Co, being escorted at Gwangju court.

    South Korea ferry boss jailed for 10 years over Sewol sinking

  • Rescue boats around the sunken Sewol ferry.

    South Korea ferry verdict: Sewol captain sentenced to 36 years in prison

  • Lee Joon-seok, captain of South Korean ferry being sentenced

    South Korea ferry captain jailed for 36 years – video

  • Lee Joon-seok

    Court to rule on death penalty for South Korean ferry captain

October 2014

  • Parents demand maximum sentence for crew members

    South Korea ferry disaster victims' families call for death penalty for crew – video

  • South Korea prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Lee Joon-seok, captain of the Sewol ferry that sank in April with the loss of more than 300 lives.

    South Korea ferry disaster: prosecutors seek death penalty for captain

  • Lee Joon-seok arriving at a court in Mokpo in April.

    South Korean ferry disaster: captain says sorry for abandoning passengers

  • Lee Joon-seok

    South Korea ferry disaster: inexperienced sailor was at helm

August 2014

  • Protesters in Seoul demand progress on the law to establish a full inquiry into the Sewol disaster.

    Funeral begins for South Korean tycoon whose family ran ferry disaster firm

    Yoo Byung-Eun to be buried on Sunday amid tight security at the compound of the religious group he headed

July 2014

  • South Korea ferry disaster trial

    South Korea ferry disaster: students testify in captain's murder trial

  • Policemen transport a stretcher with a body believed to be that of Yoo Byung-un

    Badly decomposed body found in South Korea is fugitive ferry tycoon, say police

May 2014

  • South Korean maritime police search the bow of the Sewol

    South Korea ferry search diver dies

    Cause of death unclear but 46-year-old is second diver to die in effort to retrieve bodies from the Sewol, which sank last month
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