Sewol Captain

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  South Korea Ferry Captain Murdered Passengers: Supreme Court

  South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a murder conviction and life sentence for the captain in the Sewol ferry disaster, saying he had effectively drowned more than 300 passengers to save himself.

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  Appeals Court Convicts South Korea Ferry Captain of Murder

  A South Korean appeals court on Tuesday found the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago guilty of murder and upped his sentence to life imprisonment, a court official said.

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  South Korea Ferry Captain 'Murdered' Passengers

  The captain of the Sewol ferry, which sank in April with the loss of 304 lives, murdered his passengers by intentionally abandoning them to their certain deaths, a South Korean appeals court heard on Tuesday.

• Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Korea Ferry Disaster Captain

  South Korean prosecutors on Monday demanded the death penalty for the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank in April, saying he had abandoned the more than 300 people who died in the disaster.

• South Korea Ferry Runs Aground, All 109 Rescued

  South Korea's coastguard rescued all 109 passengers and crew from a ferry that ran aground Tuesday, not far from the site of April's Sewol ferry tragedy that claimed more than 300 lives.

• Owner of Sunken Korean Ferry Blamed for Five Earlier Crashes

  In the same narrow waterways where more than 300 people died this spring aboard the ferry Sewol, another ship owned by the same company crashed into an oil tanker 11 years earlier. The ferry's captain had chosen the difficult water path to cut a mere seven miles from its journey.

• 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.

• Captain of ill-fated Korean ferry praised safety in promotional video

  The captain of a ferry that sank off South Korea's southwestern tip with hundreds feared dead said in a promotional video four years ago that the journey was safe - as long as passengers followed the instructions of the crew.

• Tragedies at sea: The Sewol and the Costa Concordia

  The causes may be very different and the toll far heavier but Italian media have pointed to similarities between the ferry disaster of the Sewol in South Korea and the Costa Concordia cruise ship crash in 2012.