Guilt Overwhelms Families of Missing of Sunken Korea Ship
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Bang Ki Sam holds his wife’s hand every morning as they walk around the harbor where bodies are brought ashore from a South Korean ferry that sank two weeks ago with their only child on board.
Their 21-year-old son, Hyun Soo, had just started a part-time job helping organize activities on board the five-deck, 6,825-ton Sewol, when it capsized and sank off the southwest corner of the Korean peninsula on April 16, leaving more than 300 people dead or missing. President Park Geun Hye yesterday apologized amid growing criticism of her government’s response to Korea’s worst maritime disaster in four decades.