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Episode 37: West Sea Ferry Disaster (Seohae Ferry Sinking)
October 10th, 1993. A gray Sunday morning on Korea's west coast. A small white ferry pulls away from a fishing island, packed with weekend anglers heading home — so packed that people are standing shoulder to shoulder on the deck, sitting on crates of fish sauce, wedged between gravel sacks and fishing gear. The boat is licensed for 221 people. It is carrying 362. Thirty minutes later, it is upside down in the Yellow Sea, and 292 of them are dead. And then the country does something almost as cruel as the sea: it turns on the captain. Newspapers say he swam away and fled. Prosecutors put him…
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