Sewol.- Students, writers urge thorough probe into ferry disaster

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SEOUL, June 2 (Yonhap) -- Student activists and literary writers called Monday for a thorough probe into April's deadly ferry sinking and stern punishment of all those responsible for one of the nation's worst maritime disasters.

The call came as lawmakers began a 90-day special investigation to determine the cause of the accident, which has claimed more than 300 lives, and the government's handling of it.

"The government must do its best to search for the missing and thoroughly find the truth with an investigation that offers no sanctuary to those responsible, including the presidential office," the student council of Seoul National University said in a statement.

"The government should hurry to legislate a special law on the ferry disaster and listen to

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Sewol.- Rough first day at parliament’s Sewol committee

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Published : 2014-06-02 21:10 Updated : 2014-06-02 21:10

The parliament’s special investigative committee on the Sewol accident got off to a rough start on Monday as the opposition criticized ruling party lawmakers for canceling a planned visit to Jindo Island without prior notice.
Ruling Saenuri Party lawmakers said earlier Monday the bereaved families had asked that the trip be canceled.
Opposition lawmakers voiced anger at the “unilateral” decision, saying the Sewol victims’ families had never done so. Opposition legislators took the train to Jindo Island as originally planned without their Saenuri counterparts.
A family representative of the Sewol

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Don Juan Carlos: una vida dedicada a España

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Juan Carlos Borbón y Borbón, rey de España bajo el nombre de Juan Carlos I, nació en la clínica Anglo Americana de Roma el 5 de enero de 1938 a las 13,15 horas.

Es el primer hijo varón de Su Alteza Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, Conde de Barcelona, y de Doña Maria de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orleáns, princesa de las Dos Sicilias. Sus abuelos paternos fueron el Rey de España, don Alfonso XIII y la reina doña Victoria Eugenia, nacida princesa de

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Sewol.- Cronyism, corruption to blame for disaster

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Cronyism, corruption to blame for disaster

 
Pyo Chang-won, right, chief of the Pyo Institute of Crime Science and former professor of the National Police Academy, speaks during a roundtable discussion about the Sewol ferry disaster at the office of Transparency International Korea (TI-Korea) in Seoul, May 1. Other participants are, from left, Hwang Pill-kyu, a lawyer at GongGam, a human rights law foundation; Kim Geo-sung, TI-Korea chairperson; and Song Chang-seog, chief manager of the Hope Institute, a civil organization promoting social innovation. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
Revealing truth about sinking of Sewol is prerequisite to healing the wounds
Hwang Pill-kyu,

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