South Korean Sunken Ferry

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  Overloaded South Korean Ferry Sunken 3 Years Ago Emerges In Grey Sea

  A South Korean ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing 304 people, most of them children on a school trip, slowly emerged from a grey sea on Thursday, a sombre reminder of a tragedy that traumatised the country.

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  Salvage Experts Start Survey of Sunken South Korean Ferry

  Chinese and South Korean salvage experts on Wednesday began an underwater survey of the sunken Sewol ferry -- the first step in the long, complex process of raising the 6,825-tonne vessel to the surface.

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  South Korea President Says Sunken Sewol Ferry Will be Raised

  South Korean President Park Geun-Hye promised today that the sunken Sewol ferry would be raised "at the earliest possible date" acceding to a key demand of the victims' relatives.

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  South Korea Court Sentences Ferry Operator Chief to 10 Years in Jail

  A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the head of the company that operated a ferry which capsized in April to 10 years in jail over his role in the country's worst maritime disaster in decades.

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  Son, Brothers of Sunken South Korean Ferry Owner Convicted

  A South Korean court convicted three relatives of the sunken ferry's owner and other associates for corruption on Wednesday, about four months after the tycoon was found dead on the run.

• Divers Find Body Six Months After South Korea Ferry Disaster

  South Korean divers discovered another body inside the sunken Sewol ferry on Tuesday, six months after it capsized and more than 100 days after the last corpse was recovered, officials said.

• Son of South Korean Sunken Ferry Owner Detained

  South Korean police detained the eldest son of the sunken ferry owner on Friday after two months on the run, three days after his billionaire father was confirmed dead.

• France Wants South Korea Ferry Owner Event Scrapped

  French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has called for a cultural event organised by a businessman wanted in connection with the deadly South Korean ferry disaster to be cancelled, sources said on Thursday.

• 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.

• Another Body Recovered From Sunken South Korean Ferry

  Dive teams on Tuesday recovered another victim of South Korea's ferry disaster, the first to be retrieved from the sunken vessel in 16 days in an increasingly frustrating search for the last bodies.

• South Korea Police Storm Compound in Search For Ferry Owner

  Thousands of South Korean police forced their way into the compound of a splinter Christian group Wednesday in their search for a fugitive businessman wanted over April's ferry disaster.

• South Korean Ferry Tragedy Toll Rises to 288: Report

  The toll in the April 16 South Korean ferry tragedy Wednesday rose to 288 with one more body recovered from the sunken ship earlier in the day, the disaster response centre said.

• Body Found in South Korean Ferry as Weather Eases

  Divers found another body trapped in a sunken South Korean ferry Tuesday as the search for more than two dozen missing passengers resumed after strong winds and waves halted the effort for three days.

• South Korean Ferry Mishap Toll Rises to 273

  The toll rose to 273 Friday in one of South Korea's deadliest maritime disasters as divers searched the sunken Sewol ferry amid slower tidal currents.

• Head of Sunken Ferry's Owner in South Korea Detained

  South Korean prosecutors on Thursday detained the head of the company that owns the ferry that sank last month over an allegation of cargo overloading.