Lee Joon-seok

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  South Korean Ferry Captain Gets 36 Years in Prison

  A news report says that a South Korean district court has handed a sentence of 36 years in prison to the captain of a ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300 people.

• South Korea Ferry Disaster Captain Admits Errors

  The ship's captain at the heart of South Korea's ferry disaster acknowledged during his murder trial Tuesday that he had erred in leaving an inexperienced crew member at the helm when the vessel capsized.

• Student Survivors Testify in South Korea Ferry Trial

  Teenaged student survivors of South Korea's ferry disaster began giving video testimony under tight security Monday in the murder trial of the vessel's captain and crew.

• Relatives Weep And Jeer at South Korea Ferry Disaster Trial

  Relatives of the victims of South Korea's ferry disaster wept amid angry scenes in court Tuesday as prosecutors played video footage of the sinking vessel during the murder trial of the captain and crew.

• Student Survivors to Testify in Korea Ferry Trial

  Student survivors of South Korea's ferry disaster will testify in the trial of the captain and crew in a special session at a courtroom in their traumatised home town, a district court ruled on Tuesday.

• Another Body Recovered From Sunken South Korean Ferry

  Dive teams on Tuesday recovered another victim of South Korea's ferry disaster, the first to be retrieved from the sunken vessel in 16 days in an increasingly frustrating search for the last bodies.

• Shout of 'Murderer' Goes up in Packed Court as Korea Ferry Crew Face Trial

  Fifteen crew of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 people, most of them children, went on trial on Tuesday on charges ranging from negligence to homicide, with the shout going up of "murderer" as the captain entered the court.

• Murder Trial Opens for South Korea Ferry Captain and Crew

  With South Korean divers still searching for victims of April's ferry disaster, the murder trial of the captain and crew was set to open on Tuesday in a heated atmosphere that has raised concerns about a fair hearing.

• Heartbreaking Video Shows Teens on South Korean Sinking Ferry

  Soon after the ferry began to tilt, there was nervous laughter, jokes about the Titanic and talk of selfies and Facebook posts from the doomed high school students huddled below deck.

• Captain says warnings over Korean ferry ignored

  A probe into South Korea's ferry disaster has heard that warnings over the ship's seaworthiness were ignored, prosecutors said on Wednesday, as rescuers worked to recover more than 90 people still missing two weeks after it sank.

• Video shows South Korea ferry captain escape sinking ship

  South Korea's coastguard on Monday released a video showing the trouserless captain of a sinking ferry scrambling to safety as hundreds remained trapped inside - a move expected to intensify criticism of the crew over the disaster.

• Boy who raised alarm on doomed Korean ferry had no time to call parents

  The frightened boy who first raised the alarm that a South Korean ferry with hundreds on board was sinking did not have time to call his parents, his father said.

• Fury, cargo questions surround sunken South Korea ferry

  Frustrated relatives of the scores of people still missing from the sinking of the ferry Sewol held the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief overnight.

• Race to recover bodies from South Korea ferry as storms loom

  Dive teams raced on Friday to pull more than 100 bodies from a sunken South Korean ferry as storm clouds loomed and the victims' families angrily pressed officials to wrap up the recovery effort.

• Korean school tribute leaves empty spaces for unfound ferry victims

  A floral tribute to the children who drowned in a sinking South Korean ferry features photographs of the victims in their school uniforms and lines of empty spaces waiting to be filled with photos as the confirmed death toll rises.