Monday, June 16, 2014

Summary of south korea ferry disaster

South Korea Ferry Disaster
On 16th April, 2014, it has been occurred a ferry disaster in South Korea. There was 286 passengers was killed by Sewol ferry disaster, most of them were high school students. Besides, there was 18 people were still missing. After the ferry disaster, people put all the faults to the captain. As all the people were staying in the safe place and shouldn’t go away, they did not noticed that the captain was being the first person that escaped from the ferry. The captain was not announced escape instructions, he was just telling people to stay there. So it must be him that caused the ferry disaster by his work fault. It meant he was not made the announcement to tell anyone to escape. Besides, in the news report, it mentioned that the ferry was turned sharply to the right, and also it was in the condition of full speed. There was only one person could make the decision of turning right or left, that must be the captain.

And now, on 10th June, 2014, the captain that called Lee Joon-seok and three people was standing trial on the court. They were charged to be homicide, that facing the maximum sentence of death. By his work fault, he has killed over 200 people in that day. Also, the ferry operator is still missing now. Authorities are still looking for a person that owned the operator of the doomed ferry that called Yoo Byung-un. It is because he embezzled public funds that refer to be a main problem that cause to the damaged safety management. Therefore, the lawyer is waiting for the judges’ wise decision, that was the only words that he could say to him. 

Reference page:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/south-korea-ferry-disaster-trial-begins-for-accused-crew-members-1.2670447




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