SEOUL, South Korea -- As visiting President Barack Obama offered South Koreans his condolences Friday for the ferry disaster, the South Korean government conceded that some bodies have been ...

A man looks at portraits of victims aboard the sunken ferry Sewol in the water off the southern coast yesterday in Seoul, South Korea. SEOUL, South Korea – A South Korean ferry captain was sentenced ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- A ferry carrying 459 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea's southern coast on Wednesday, leaving nearly 300 people ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . James Carroll at The Boston Globe on the South Korean ferry disaster. “The sad story of the Korean ferry, with a captain who thought only of himself, ...

BEIJING — Hopes had dimmed Wednesday that the nearly 300 missing passengers who were trapped aboard a sunken ferry had survived after divers spent hours searching the vessel and had yet to find anyone ...

All 267 people on board a South Korean passenger ferry that ran aground off the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday were rescued, in an incident that revived memories of the major ...