The Sewol Ferry Disaster

“世越号沉船事件”

Stuff You Should Know

2026-04-16

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In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock inspector to the Coast Guard to the president failed them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • And this is Stuff You Should Know, part of our ongoing marine disaster suite, I guess.

  • Yeah, I'm glad we took a break.

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  • It's a very sad, I mean, just sort of devastating topic today.

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  • This one's especially sad, I think, because it's more recent and involved kids.

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