Captain Lee Joon-seok

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  South Korean Ferry Captain Gets 36 Years in Prison

  A news report says that a South Korean district court has handed a sentence of 36 years in prison to the captain of a ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300 people.

• South Korea Ferry Disaster Captain Admits Errors

  The ship's captain at the heart of South Korea's ferry disaster acknowledged during his murder trial Tuesday that he had erred in leaving an inexperienced crew member at the helm when the vessel capsized.

• Student Survivors Testify in South Korea Ferry Trial

  Teenaged student survivors of South Korea's ferry disaster began giving video testimony under tight security Monday in the murder trial of the vessel's captain and crew.

• Relatives Weep And Jeer at South Korea Ferry Disaster Trial

  Relatives of the victims of South Korea's ferry disaster wept amid angry scenes in court Tuesday as prosecutors played video footage of the sinking vessel during the murder trial of the captain and crew.

• Student Survivors to Testify in Korea Ferry Trial

  Student survivors of South Korea's ferry disaster will testify in the trial of the captain and crew in a special session at a courtroom in their traumatised home town, a district court ruled on Tuesday.

• Shout of 'Murderer' Goes up in Packed Court as Korea Ferry Crew Face Trial

  Fifteen crew of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 people, most of them children, went on trial on Tuesday on charges ranging from negligence to homicide, with the shout going up of "murderer" as the captain entered the court.

• Murder Trial Opens for South Korea Ferry Captain and Crew

  With South Korean divers still searching for victims of April's ferry disaster, the murder trial of the captain and crew was set to open on Tuesday in a heated atmosphere that has raised concerns about a fair hearing.

• Captain says warnings over Korean ferry ignored

  A probe into South Korea's ferry disaster has heard that warnings over the ship's seaworthiness were ignored, prosecutors said on Wednesday, as rescuers worked to recover more than 90 people still missing two weeks after it sank.

• Video shows South Korea ferry captain escape sinking ship

  South Korea's coastguard on Monday released a video showing the trouserless captain of a sinking ferry scrambling to safety as hundreds remained trapped inside - a move expected to intensify criticism of the crew over the disaster.

• Fury, cargo questions surround sunken South Korea ferry

  Frustrated relatives of the scores of people still missing from the sinking of the ferry Sewol held the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief overnight.

• Race to recover bodies from South Korea ferry as storms loom

  Dive teams raced on Friday to pull more than 100 bodies from a sunken South Korean ferry as storm clouds loomed and the victims' families angrily pressed officials to wrap up the recovery effort.

• South Korea ferry engineer says no technical problems

  The senior engineer on the South Korean ferry that sank last week said Thursday he was unaware of any problems with the ship's engine or ballast when it ran into trouble.

• Angry parents seek autopsies of South Korea ferry victims

  Some parents of the mostly teenage victims of South Korea's ferry disaster are pushing for autopsies that might show their children were alive inside the submerged vessel and only died because the emergency response was so slow.

• Captain who left doomed ferry had 40 years at sea

  A colleague calls Capt. Lee Joon-seok the nicest person on the ship. With more than 40 years' experience at sea, Lee could speak with eloquence about the romance and danger of a life spent on ships.

• South Korean president says ferry crew's actions 'tantamount to murder'

  The actions of the captain and crew of a capsized South Korean ferry were "tantamount to murder," President Park Guen-Hye said on Monday.