Sewol sinking

maritime disaster, off the coast of South Korea [2014]

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In South Korea: The Sixth Republic
…April 2014 after the ferry Sewol sank en route from Incheon to Jeju Island, resulting in the deaths of all but 172 of the nearly 500 passengers on board, most of them high-school students. The ship had been made unstable by structural retrofitting and an excessive cargo load. Park’s administration…
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