President Park Vows to Raise Sunken Sewol Ferry Boat

This is going to be a very expensive operation to do.  The Korean government should force the ferry boat company to pay for this instead of the taxpayers:

South Korea’s president on Thursday vowed to raise the Sewol ferry — which sank a year ago killing 304 people — as mourners marked the anniversary of the disaster.

Most of those killed in the sinking, off the country’s southwestern coast, were high school students. Some 295 bodies were retrieved but nine remain missing.

Speaking in the port of Paengmok, near the disaster site, President Park Guen-hye said she would take “the necessary steps to salvage the ship at the earliest possible date,” the BBC reported.

Park’s announcement — the first time she explicitly mentioned the recovery operation — came soon after the National Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the swift recovery of the ferry, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. The president said all measures would be taken to recover the bodies of the missing.

“I have a heavy heart and my heart aches to think how painful it is” (for the family members), Park said, according to Yonhap.  [USA Today]

You can read the rest at the link, but for causing this tragedy Chonghaejin Corp. was fined less than $10,000.  They should pay to raise the ferry and compensate all of its victims.