No long sentences
The sinking of the MV Sewol
16 April 2014. 8.52. “The ship seems to be sinking.”
Incheon to Jeju ferry, South Korea.
476 passengers. 325 school students.
Capsize.
No coordinated rescue effort.
The president conducts efforts from bed.
Official divers – no skills.
Civilian divers execute rescue efforts.
Suffer trauma.
Commit suicide.
They raise bodies, diving 5 or 6 times a day.
They should dive only once a day.
Captain escaped without “abandoning ship.”
Instead: “Do not move.”
“Follow your teachers.”
They didn’t move. They followed their teachers.
They drowned. Students and teachers together.
Huddled together. Awaiting their captain’s leadership.
The president wanted to see.
Cameras.
Not rescues. Cameras.
“The one who was supposed to protect us was absent there.”
Questions. Few answers.
“We should have landed on the ship earlier.”
“They had to report a successful operation to the president, so they staged it.”
Q: “The ferry was sinking and more than half the passengers were locked in. What kind of order should have been given at that time?”
A: “As I watched the scene, I prayed.”
Q to the captain: “Were you ordered to set up a plan to save the passengers?”
A by the captain: “I can’t remember.”
Q by diver: “Me, I remember everything with acute pain. How come high officials don’t know, don’t remember?”
No answer.
“Park should resign.”
Park’s expelled.
“What more do you have to hide?”
Corruption.
Incompetence.
476 passengers.
306 deaths.
Disdain.
Cover-up.
Captain got life. For causing death.
14 crew got 1.5 to 12 years.
Otherwise, no long sentences.
Except for the parents of the dead.
If you could punch the heart sign more than once I would’ve .