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Dark Files: Disasters at Sea — Three Ferries, One Warning Never Heeded
Welcome to Dark Files. This time, we're going to sea. For much of modern Korea, the ferry wasn't a holiday. It was how islanders reached the mainland, how a harvest got to market, how a school trip got to Jeju. In this compilation, we follow three ferries that went down, decades apart, and the pattern that tied them together. December 1970. The Namyoung-ho leaves Jeju for Busan with her decks stacked with tangerine crates and more people aboard than she was licensed to carry. She capsizes in the dark, no Korean station answers her distress calls, and more than three hundred people die. To…
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