Families and Government Officials Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Sewol Ferry Disaster

It is hard to believe that it has already been 10 years since the Sewol ferry sinking. It just doesn’t seem like it has been that long probably because the tragedy has remained in the headlines for so long:

A commemoration ceremony is in progress at Incheon Family Park in Incheon, west of Seoul, on April 16, 2024, marking the 10th anniversary of the deadly sinking of the ferry Sewol. (Yonhap)

Bereaved families and government officials commemorated the victims of the deadly sinking of the ferry Sewol on Tuesday, marking the 10th anniversary of one of the country’s worst maritime disasters.

Interior Minister Lee Sang-min and Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok were among the about 200 people who attended the commemoration ceremony in Incheon Family Park in Incheon, west of Seoul, where the ashes of 44 victims killed in the maritime accident are enshrined.

Including them, a total of 304 people, mostly high school students on a school field trip, were killed as the 6,800-ton ship sank off the southwestern coast on April 16, 2014.

Yonhap

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