A civic group holds a memorial service to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sewol ferry sinking at a port in Mokpo, South Jeolla Sunday.
A civic group holds a memorial service to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sewol ferry sinking at a port in Mokpo, South Jeolla, Sunday. Some 2,000 people including bereaved families, lawmakers and other mourners attended another ceremony organized by the Education Ministry in Ansan, Gyeonggi later that day, commemorating the victims of the ferry tragedy on April 16, 2014, one of the country’s worst maritime disasters that killed 304 people, mostly high school students. [YONHAP]
![A civic group holds a memorial service to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sewol ferry sinking at a port in Mokpo, South Jeolla, Sunday. Some 2,000 people including bereaved families, lawmakers and other mourners attended another ceremony organized by the Education Ministry in Ansan, Gyeonggi later that day, commemorating the victims of the ferry tragedy on April 16, 2014, one of the country’s worst maritime disasters that killed 304 people, mostly high school students. [YONHAP]](https://img2.daumcdn.net/thumb/R658x0.q70/?fname=https://t1.daumcdn.net/news/202304/16/koreajoongangdaily/20230416165709489bszz.jpg)