South Korea Ferry Sinks

• South Korea Looks to Wrap up Ferry Recovery Effort

  Recovery teams should try to wrap up their search for bodies from South Korea's ferry disaster by the weekend, Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won said on Wednesday, three weeks after the ship sank with hundreds of schoolchildren on board.

• South Korea Ferry Was Routinely Overloaded

  The doomed ferry Sewol exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips - nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo - in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents that reveal the regulatory failures that allowed passengers by the hundreds to set off on an unsafe vessel. And it may have been more overloaded than ever on its final journe...

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  Body recovery from sunken South Korean ferry suspended

  Concerns are growing among anguished families that the bodies of those who died in the sinking of a South Korean ferry may never be found, as search teams suspended work Saturday because of bad weather.

• 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.

• Families of sunken South Korea ferry passengers confront officials

  Frustrated relatives of the scores of people still missing from the sinking of the ferry Sewol staged a marathon confrontation with the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief, surrounding the senior officials in a standoff that lasted overnight and into Friday morning as they vented their rage at the pace of search efforts.

• South Korea ferry disaster may cloud Barack Obama visit

  When President Barack Obama arrives in South Korea on Friday, he will be thrust anew into the role of consoler in chief in a time of crisis, a responsibility he has become all too accustomed to in the United States.

• Boy and girl on South Korean ferry tied life jackets together before they drowned

  A boy and girl trapped in a sinking South Korean ferry with hundreds of other high school students tied their life jacket cords together, a diver who recovered their bodies said, presumably so they wouldn't float apart.

• South Korea ferry toll hits 159 as relatives wait

  Divers made their way deeper on Thursday into the submerged wreck of a ferry that sank more than a week ago as the death toll neared 160 and relatives of the more than 140 still missing pressed the government to finish the grim task of recovery soon.

• Body of Korean boy who raised alarm on sinking ferry believed found

  The body of a South Korean boy whose shaking voice first raised the alarm that a passenger ferry with hundreds on board was in trouble has been found, his parents believe, but a DNA test has yet to confirm the find, media said on Thursday.

• South Korea ferry captain arrested, divers enter ship

  The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized three days ago was reportedly arrested early on Saturday, as divers overcame strong currents and near zero visibility to enter the submerged vessel for the first time.

• Two dead, 293 missing in South Korea ferry capsize

  South Korean rescue teams, including elite navy SEAL divers, raced on Wednesday to find up to 293 people missing from a capsized ferry carrying 459 passengers and crew -- mostly high school students bound for a holiday island.

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  Two dead, over 100 missing as S Korea ferry sinks

  South Korea said Wednesday that two people were killed and more than 100 missing after a ferry capsized at sea with 477 people on board -- mostly high school students bound for a holiday island.

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  Two dead, 368 rescued from capsized South Korea ferry: official

  South Korea said on Wednesday that two people were killed and 368 rescued from a ferry that capsized at sea with 477 people on board -- mostly high school students -- as divers searched for scores still missing.