GRIEF REMEMBERED
People release balloons during a ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster at the southern island of Jindo, the closest landfall to the site where the Sewol sank, on April 16, 2015. South Korea’s president vowed to raise the sunken Sewol ferry bowing to a key demand of grieving relatives as they marked the first anniversary of the disaster that claimed 304 lives—most of them schoolchildren. AFP PHOTO/YONHAP
People release balloons during a ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster at the southern island of Jindo, the closest landfall to the site where the Sewol sank, on April 16, 2015. South Korea’s president vowed to raise the sunken Sewol ferry bowing to a key demand of grieving relatives as they marked the first anniversary of the disaster that claimed 304 lives—most of them schoolchildren. AFP PHOTO/YONHAP
ANSAN, South Korea: Grief, anger and political tension colored the first anniversary of South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster on Thursday, with complaints of continued official indifference towards the tragedy that claimed 304 lives.