In Korea, since April 2014, the yellow ribbon is the symbol of the tragedy of the Sewol ferry, which wrecked on its way to Jeju Island, taking the lives of more than 300 people, most of the high school students (they had between 16 and 17 years old).o
On the morning of April 16, 2014, the Sewol ferry departed from Incheon port bound for Jeju Island. Onboard were 475 people, mainly students from a secondary school in the city of Ansan and their teachers, as well as 30 members of the crew.
The ferry had operated for 18 years in Japan, and only in 2013 had it been sold to Korea after passing all relevant safety and regulatory controls.
When it was only about three hours to reach its destination, the ferry sent an alarm signal; it had begun to sink. From here, a series of human errors, incompetencies, and clumsiness occurred that led to one of the greatest tragedies in the modern history of Korea.
A total of 304 people drowned (5 are still missing), of which about 250 were students. The 171 survivors were rescued in extremis by different fishing boats that arrived first at the site of the wreck.
The tragedy deeply shocked Korean society, both due to the young age of the deceased and the series of errors that triggered it, and which I will tell you about in the next post.
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