South Korea Prime Minister to Resign Over Ferry Sinking
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South Korean President Park Geun Hye accepted her prime minister’s offer to resign over the government’s failure to properly handle the nation’s worst maritime disaster in four decades.
Prime Minister Chung Hong Won will stay in office until the government’s response to the ferry sinking has concluded, according to presidential spokesman Min Kyung Wook. Relatives of the ferry victims shouted and threw water bottles at Chung as he visited them hours after the incident on April 16.