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President weeps for ferry disaster

By Agencies in Seoul | China Daily | Updated: 2014-05-20 07:44

Tears rolling down her cheeks, South Korean President Park Geun-hye formally apologized on Monday for a ferry disaster that killed about 300 passengers, mostly school children, and said she would break up the coast guard for failing in its duties.

Park has been hit hard by an angry nationwide outcry over the government's response to South Korea's worst civilian maritime disaster in 20 years and the seemingly slow and ineffective rescue operation.

Polls show support for Park has dropped by more than 20 points since the April 16 disaster.

"I apologize to the nation for the pain and suffering that everyone felt, as the president who should have been responsible for the safety and lives of the people," Park said in a televised national address, her first since the Sewol capsized and sank with 476 passengers and crew on board.

"The ultimate responsibility for the poor response to this accident lies with me," Park said in a televised address to the nation.

She fought back sobs as she remembered some of the teenagers who perished trying to help one another, calling them heroes in an unprecedented show of emotion.

Park, who is serving a single five-year term, is the daughter of Park Chung-hee, the former president who ruled for nearly two decades in the 1960s and 1970s. She lost both her parents to assassins.

At least 286 people were killed and 18 remain missing. Only 172 people were rescued, with the rest presumed to have drowned.

Of the passengers, 339 were children and their teachers on a field trip from a high school on the outskirts of Seoul.

Park vowed sweeping reforms to improve oversight, as well as tough punishment for bureaucrats and businesses whose negligence endangers public safety.

"A 20-year-old vessel was bought and refurbished to add excessive capacity, then it was loaded with much more cargo than allowed with a false reporting on weight, but not a single person in the position to supervise stopped any of it," Park said.

She singled out structural problems within the coast guard as the main reason why there was such a high casualty toll from an accident that played out on national television as the vessel gradually sank with most of the passengers trapped inside.

"Had there been an immediate and proactive rescue operation after the accident, we would have been able to reduce the casualties," Park said.

The coast guard's rescue duties would be transferred to a national emergency safety agency to be set up and the national police will take over its investigative function, she said.

Reuters-AFP

 

President weeps for ferry disaster

South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologizes to the nation in a live television address on Monday for the loss of nearly 300 lives when the Sewol capsized on April 16. Lee Jin-man / Associated Press

 

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