South Korea Accident
Offbeat | Amrita Kohli | Wednesday February 15, 2017
In a world where everyone seems to be in a hurry to reach somewhere, this movie collective by business tycoon Anand Mahindra comes as a breath of fresh air. It shows how citizens in South Korea worked seamlessly after an accident in a tunnel that blocked their route – the sort of cooperative act you’ll never see on Indian roads.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday June 1, 2016
Four workers were killed and ten others injured in a collapse Wednesday at a subway construction site near the South Korean capital Seoul, the fire department said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday April 16, 2016
Grieving relatives today threw white chrysanthemums into the sea at the spot where the Sewol ferry sank, as South Korea marked the 2nd anniversary of the disaster which killed 304.
World News | Associated Press | Wednesday December 30, 2015
North Korea’s top official in charge of relations with South Korea has died in a traffic accident, the country’s state media announced today, potentially dimming the prospect for ties inbetween the rival countries. He was 73.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday November 12, 2015
South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a murder conviction and life sentence for the captain in the Sewol ferry disaster, telling he had effectively drowned more than three hundred passengers to save himself.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday August Nineteen, 2015
Chinese and South Korean salvage experts on Wednesday began an underwater survey of the sunken Sewol ferry — the very first step in the long, complicated process of raising the 6,825-tonne vessel to the surface.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday July Three, 2015
Six South Korean workers were killed Friday when a waste water storage tank exploded at a chemical plant in the industrial city of Ulsan, a fire official said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday April 28, 2015
A South Korean appeals court on Tuesday found the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago guilty of murder and upped his sentence to life imprisonment, a court official said.
World News | Reuters | Wednesday April 22, 2015
South Korea said on Wednesday it will raise the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago, killing more than three hundred people, most of them children, yielding to pressure from mourning families who have called for a deeper investigation into the disaster.
World News | Reuters | Wednesday April 1, 2015
The South Korean government said today it would pay about four hundred twenty million won ($380,000) compensation for each of the two hundred fifty students who died or remain missing from last year’s ferry disaster, in the very first settlement suggest to victims’ families.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday February 11, 2015
Two people were killed and forty three injured on Wednesday, including five foreign nationals, in a 100-vehicle pile-up on the highway to South Korea’s largest international airport, police said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday February Ten, 2015
The captain of the Sewol ferry, which sank in April with the loss of three hundred four lives, murdered his passengers by intentionally abandoning them to their certain deaths, a South Korean appeals court heard on Tuesday.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday October Eighteen, 2014
An official dealing with safety measures at a concert in South Korea where sixteen people died when the grate they were standing collapsed evidently committed suicide hours after the tragedy, authorities said on Saturday.
World News | Associated Press | Friday October 17, 2014
Fourteen people were feared dead after a ventilation grate collapsed on Friday during a concert by a popular women’ band near South Korea’s capital, officials said.
World News | Associated Press | Monday June 30, 2014
In the same narrow waterways where more than three hundred people died this spring aboard the ferry Sewol, another ship possessed by the same company crashed into an oil tanker eleven years earlier. The ferry’s captain had chosen the difficult water path to cut a mere seven miles from its journey.
‘South Korea Accident’ – thirty seven News Result(s)
Offbeat | Amrita Kohli | Wednesday February 15, 2017
In a world where everyone seems to be in a hurry to reach somewhere, this movie collective by business tycoon Anand Mahindra comes as a breath of fresh air. It shows how citizens in South Korea worked seamlessly after an accident in a tunnel that blocked their route – the sort of cooperative act you’ll never see on Indian roads.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday June 1, 2016
Four workers were killed and ten others injured in a collapse Wednesday at a subway construction site near the South Korean capital Seoul, the fire department said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday April 16, 2016
Grieving relatives today threw white chrysanthemums into the sea at the spot where the Sewol ferry sank, as South Korea marked the 2nd anniversary of the disaster which killed 304.
World News | Associated Press | Wednesday December 30, 2015
North Korea’s top official in charge of relations with South Korea has died in a traffic accident, the country’s state media announced today, potentially dimming the prospect for ties inbetween the rival countries. He was 73.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday November 12, 2015
South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a murder conviction and life sentence for the captain in the Sewol ferry disaster, telling he had effectively drowned more than three hundred passengers to save himself.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday August Nineteen, 2015
Chinese and South Korean salvage experts on Wednesday began an underwater survey of the sunken Sewol ferry — the very first step in the long, sophisticated process of raising the 6,825-tonne vessel to the surface.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday July Three, 2015
Six South Korean workers were killed Friday when a waste water storage tank exploded at a chemical plant in the industrial city of Ulsan, a fire official said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday April 28, 2015
A South Korean appeals court on Tuesday found the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago guilty of murder and upped his sentence to life imprisonment, a court official said.
World News | Reuters | Wednesday April 22, 2015
South Korea said on Wednesday it will raise the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago, killing more than three hundred people, most of them children, yielding to pressure from mourning families who have called for a deeper investigation into the disaster.
World News | Reuters | Wednesday April 1, 2015
The South Korean government said today it would pay about four hundred twenty million won ($380,000) compensation for each of the two hundred fifty students who died or remain missing from last year’s ferry disaster, in the very first settlement suggest to victims’ families.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday February 11, 2015
Two people were killed and forty three injured on Wednesday, including five foreign nationals, in a 100-vehicle pile-up on the highway to South Korea’s largest international airport, police said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday February Ten, 2015
The captain of the Sewol ferry, which sank in April with the loss of three hundred four lives, murdered his passengers by intentionally abandoning them to their certain deaths, a South Korean appeals court heard on Tuesday.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday October Legal, 2014
An official dealing with safety measures at a concert in South Korea where sixteen people died when the grate they were standing collapsed evidently committed suicide hours after the tragedy, authorities said on Saturday.
World News | Associated Press | Friday October 17, 2014
Fourteen people were feared dead after a ventilation grate collapsed on Friday during a concert by a popular women’ band near South Korea’s capital, officials said.
World News | Associated Press | Monday June 30, 2014
In the same narrow waterways where more than three hundred people died this spring aboard the ferry Sewol, another ship wielded by the same company crashed into an oil tanker eleven years earlier. The ferry’s captain had chosen the difficult water path to cut a mere seven miles from its journey.
World News | Associated Press | Thursday May 29, 2014
Police in South Korea say Lebanon’s ambassador to the Asian country has died in a car accident.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday May 11, 2014
Many relatives believe some children may have survived for hours or even days inwards the capsized ferry, but died because rescuers took too long to access the submerged vessel.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday May Ten, 2014
Divers have retrieved two more figures from the wreck of the South Korean ferry that sank last month, as conditions on the ship further deteriorated, officials said Saturday.
World News | Associated Press | Friday April 25, 2014
As visiting President Barack Obama suggested South Koreans his condolences on Friday for the ferry disaster, the South Korean government conceded that some figures have been misidentified and announced switches to prevent such mistakes from happening again.
World News | Associated Press | Friday April 25, 2014
Divers grope their way leisurely through the dark corridors and cabins of the sunken Sewol ferry. Figures emerge all of a sudden, floating by in the murky water, buoyed by life-jackets or the bloat of decomposition, their faces etched with fear or shock.
World News | Reuters | Thursday April 24, 2014
South Korean prosecutors said on Thursday that they had raided shipping safety watchdogs as part of expanded investigations following the burying of a ferry last week in which more than three hundred people were killed or missing presumed dead.
World News | Associated Press | Wednesday April 23, 2014
A colleague calls Capt. Lee Joon-seok the nicest person on the ship. With more than forty years’ practice at sea, Lee could speak with eloquence about the romance and danger of a life spent on ships.
World News | Associated Press | Tuesday April 22, 2014
As the ferry sank, some team members gave their lifejackets to passengers. One refused to leave until she shepherded students off the ship, and was later found dead. Others worked from rescue boats to break windows with hammers and pull people trapped in cabins to safety.
World News | Reuters | Tuesday April 22, 2014
Here is the dramatic, confused exchange inbetween a submerging South Korean ferry and maritime traffic control on the southern honeymoon island of Jeju after the vessel began to list at 8.49 a.m. last Wednesday (2349 GMT Tuesday).
World News | Associated Press | Tuesday April 22, 2014
Lee Byung-soo says he knew, when he witnessed his 15-year-old son’s assets in the tent. It could not have been more horrifically evident. But he wished so much for him to be alive.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday April 21, 2014
South Korean prosecutors on Monday detained four more team members in a widening investigation into a ferry disaster that left hundreds missing, presumed dead, local media reported.
World News | Associated Press | Monday April 21, 2014
Divers continued the grim work of recovering bods from inwards a sunken South Korean ferry Monday, securing a fresh entryway into the wreck, as a freshly released transcript displayed the ship was crippled by confusion and indecision well after it began listing.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday April 20, 2014
South Korean prosecutors investigating a ferry disaster said on Sunday they would seek to extend the detention of the ship’s captain and two other team by ten days as they attempted to determine the cause of an accident that may claim more than three hundred lives.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday April 20, 2014
In a last appalled, tearful call to his elder sister, 16-year-old Kim Dong-Hyup promised to get off the drowning ferry alive.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday April 20, 2014
Divers began retrieving figures on Sunday from inwards the submerged South Korean ferry that capsized four days ago with hundreds of children on board, as families angered by the rhythm of the rescue efforts scuffled with police.