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Sunken South Korean Ferry Owner Blamed for 5 Previous 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 …

Rescuers Search for Missing After Ferry Sinks Near South Korea

Park Ji Yoon hadn’t wanted to go on her high school’s trip to the South Korean resort island of Jeju. She hated riding on ferries. When she called the grandmother who had raised her, more than 12 hours after the …