S.Korea Coastguard Denies Divers Have Entered Capsized Ship
South Korea's coastguard said on Friday divers have not yet entered the hull of the capsized ferry where more than 270 people, most of them school children on a field trip, are missing. South Korea's YTN television earlier said divers had entered the hull and were searching the dining hall and cafeteria of the Sewol ferry where many of the passengers were believed to be at the time of Wednesday's accident. (Reporting by Ju-min Park, writing by Jack Kim)
Vice-Principal Of S.Korea School In Ferry Disaster Commits Suicide
; According to data from South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service, a government body, Chonghaejin is "indirectly" owned by two sons of the owner of a former shipping company called Semo Marine which went bankrupt in 1997. (By Jungmin Jang and Ju-min Park, Additional reporting by Jack Kim, Miyoung Kim, James Pearson, Sohee Kim and Cho Meeyoung; Writing by David Chance; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Nick Macfie, Reuters
300 Missing After Korean Ferry Capsizes
feet) and it weighs 6,586 gross tonnes. Shipping records show it was built in Japan in 1994. In 1993, the Seohae ferry sank, and 292 of the 362 passengers on board perished. (By Narae Kim; Additional reporting by Ju-Min Park, Choonsik Yoo, Meeyoung Cho and James Pearson in SEOUL; Writing by Jack Kim; Editing by Robert Birsel and Mike Collett-White)