About Me
My name is Nicole Bires and I am currently a full-time student at Northern Virginia Community College. I hope to one day be an international investigative journalist who travels all around the globe. I hope this website gives you a bit of information regarding the MV Sewol sinking and showcases the importance of learning about an event like this. Never forget the victims of the Sewol tragedy.
Rescources
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-sinking-of-the-mv-sewol-and-the-confusion-of-disasters
https://time.com/85501/sewol-ferry-overweight-south-korea/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/7/19/s-korea-government-liable-for-botched-mv-sewol-rescue-court
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32297010
https://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/58164/south-korea-ferry-death-toll-hits-100-salvage-begins
https://www.dw.com/en/south-korean-president-park-apologizes-over-ferry-disaster/a-17599866
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/south-korea-ferry-sinks-hundreds-missing/100718/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/world/asia/sewol-ferry-accident.html
https://www.asianjunkie.com/2015/11/11/fxs-red-light-was-a-criticism-of-the-sewol-ferry-disaster/
Books On The Tragedy
Memorial Book (MV Sewol Ferry Accident)- Indiana University Maurer School of Law
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=histdocs
The Indiana University Maurer School of Law, led by S.J.D. students Moon Sook Park, Kwangsup Kim, and Yonghwan Choung, erected a memorial to those killed in the tragedy. The memorial was placed in the lobby of the law school for the month of May in 2014. Part of the memorial was a guest book that community members could record their thoughts in or just sign their signatures.
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Story of a Survivor of the Sewol Ferry Disaster (Changbi, 2021)- Kim Hong-Mo
The Hall (Changbi, 2021) is a cartoon book drawn based on the story of Kim Dong-su who is known as a hero who rescued passengers during the Sewol Ferry Disaster but suffered severe trauma.
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Yellow Book, 2015- Multiple artists
One year after the tragedy, four designers and 59 illustrators of children’s books came together in collaboration and published the Yellow Book, a graphic novel that documents the disaster and its aftermath.
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To the One I Miss- Humanitas
“To the One I Miss,” a collection of letters by 110 surviving family members of victims in the 2014 Sewol ferry sinking, was published on Apr. 9, 2018 by Humanitas. According to Kyobo Books, a total of 78 volumes on the Sewol tragedy had been published as of Apr. 11, 2018.
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What Sewol Ferry Asks us: The Sociology of Disaster and Publicness- Dukjin Chang and others
This book is a result of a joint efforts made by the researchers of the Institute for Social Development and Policy Research of Seoul National University to better understand the Sewol ferry disaster. What caused the absurd catastrophe to occur? Why have we continued to undergo this process of repeating similar disasters for decades? And, considering this, why have things not improved?