South Korea's ferry tragedy has deep roots. Photographer: Kim Doo-Ho/AFP/Getty Images
(Corrects Park Geun Hye's title in the sixth paragraph of an editorial published April 29.)
In the aftermath of the ferry tragedy in which 302 passengers, most of them high school students, may have died, South Koreans have had more than one target for their rage: not only the captain and crew of the Sewol, who botched the evacuation and then abandoned ship, but, more important, the shipping company and regulators, who appear to have cut corners on safety.
The test of whether South Korea has learned anything from this disaster will be whether it can finally sever the ties that have long bound industries, including