MOKPO, South Korea — A ferry carrying 462 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea’s southern coast on Wednesday, leaving more than 280 people ...

MOKPO, South Korea — Koo Bon-hee could see the exit. For half an hour, as the doomed ferry filled with water and listed severely on its side, the crew told passengers to wait for rescuers. With their ...

A man has been arrested for allegedly posting thousands of online posts mocking victims and families of some of Korea’s ...

All 267 people on board a South Korean passenger ferry that ran aground off the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday were rescued, in an incident that revived memories of the major ...

President Lee Jae Myung delivers a eulogy during a memorial service in Ansan, south of Seoul, on April 16, 2026, to pay tribute to the victims of the sinking of the ferry Sewol off Jin Island on South ...

President Lee Jae Myung slammed Starbucks Korea on Saturday over 2024 promotional material that allegedly evoked the tragedy of a ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people a decade earlier.