The rival parties continue to lock horns over a special bill proposed to grant investigative powers for a special enquiry to ...

Pope Francis will personally console some of the bereaved family members of victims of the Sewol ferry disaster during his ...

In the wake of the Sewol ferry tragedy, the South Korean government implemented sweeping reforms to prevent future maritime disasters. Stricter regulations were introduced to ensure that ferries ...

Yoo's father, Yoo Byung-eun, was blamed for the disaster ... In 2019, a South Korean court awarded compensation to some survivors of the ferry sinking, ordering the government and Cheonghaejin ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Nearly a year after her ... who is among nine victims of the ferry disaster whose body has yet to be recovered. Public safety was mostly an afterthought in South Korea's decades ...

Like Park’s 29-year-old son, Lee Nam-hoon, most victims were young people who went to Seoul ... disaster. The Itaewon deaths shocked a nation still scarred by the 2014 sinking of a ferry ...

Saturday’s disaster was concentrated in a sloped, narrow alley in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, a popular nightlife district, with witnesses and survivors ... died in a ferry sinking.