The Sewol Ferry Tragedy - Coward Captain Left 350 Students To Die In A Sinking Ship

Bing this is going to be a long one and it's going to be a tough one okay we're talking about this hward tragedy the sinking of this Hare boat now two 16-year-old students from tanan high school they made headlines there were some rumors that they were dating there were some rumors that said no they were just close friends but most of the students that knew both of them personally said they barely knew each other I don't even think that they had a class together most kids said that was the extent of their interaction just passing each other in the hallways yet the two of them found each other alone in a room in a boat terrified I mean they're watching the water starting to pull on the ground and they didn't know what to do I'm sure they were frantic I'm sure that there were a lot of things going on in their minds I'm sure that they were trying to comfort each other but eventually everything goes black a civilian diver would later find both their bodies alone in that room and their life jacket cords were still tied together he remembers how he had to separate them because he physically couldn't bring up two bodies at once and he recognized that in their last moments maybe these two kids knew each other maybe they didn't but in their last moment they didn't want to be alone so they tied the strings of their life jackets together till the very end and he said you know I started crying thinking that I didn't want to separate them but I had to he said said it was one of the hardest rescue Dives that he had ever endured in his entire life he would never forget some of the stuff that was seen other students from the same high school tanan high school faced similar Fates a female student was seen throwing a chair at a window a glass window and she's hurling this chair with as much force as she can muster she would go as far back as she could and then she would throw it with all of her strength and it would just clunk onto the window and fall back back down she wasn't angry but there was just pure desperation in her eyes she could see on the very other side of this window were Rescuers they saw her she saw them and they did nothing but stare at her what why we're going to get into it I mean this rescue I don't even think you can call it a rescue she realized that these people these Rescuers they're not here to save her all the people that she thought would be responsible for her safety the captain of the boat the rescue teams from the Korean national Coast Guard they all abandoned her they were watching her through the window and it was very clear to her in her last moments that she was being left to die imagine these are the very last realizations that you have in your life April 16th 2014 this haare fery capsized off the coast of South Korea there were 476 passengers most of them were high school students around the age of 16 years old from the same high school they were on their way to tedu Island when their boat started sinking on one side and you know when a giant boat that carries 500 passengers when it starts sinking it's not something that goes unnoticed nor is it something that happens very quickly soon nearby boats and vessels and even countries start giving out lending Helping Hands the Japanese Coast Guard asked if South Korea required assistance because they were right there the US Navy had a massive vessel stationed near by and offered to rush to the scene to help with rescue efforts South Korea denied all of their requests they told news outlets that they had everything under control that they were operating a full scale rescue operation and that majority of the passengers had already been rescued off the boat and they're being rushed to safety wow South Korea told the world hey guys these are our kids and we're going to do everything to save our kids but that could not have been further from the truth this heror fairy tragedy in South Korea would lead to the deaths of over 250 high school students over 300 lives in total it would lead to the president being impeached the Prime Minister resigning the Korean Coast Guard being disbanded multiple high-profile arrests a billionaire suspicious suicide a helicopter crash hunger strikes and a vice principal of a high school found hanging from a tree in the Woods dead so let's get into the tragedy [Music] as always full show notes are available at Rotten Mingo podcast.com there there's a South Korean news Outlet called news stopa which you're like I've never heard this I've heard of like SPS and NBC News stopa worked closely with the victim's families and their attorneys from the get-go they had so much information on this tragedy that was being suppressed by mainstream news they were the only ones that were standing up when everyone else was silent it's estimated and kind of surmised that without them most of the evidence most of these testimonies would have been completely lost they would have never been used so that was my primary Source because they work directly with the families to get the truth out there and you know this isn't just a tragedy it's a fulls scale cover up with the president the most powerful person in that country working in working with the media so please go show support to new stopa if you can and with that being said let's get into it the parents of tanan high school are getting bombarded with calls phone calls text messages voice memos pictures are being sent to them and it was like A parents worst nightmare think about your 16-year-old kid aboard a boat on a school field trip and they're sending you cryptic text messages like Mom I'm sending you this because I'm scared I might not be able to say it later but I love you you're like what what's going on you're like on a field trip another kid sent hope we can meet again alive another student said if I've wronged any of you guys please forgive me the parents start freaking out but they're told by their kids that hey Mom Dad the boat is sinking but rescue efforts are on their way I think everyone's got it under control they told us to stay in our cabins and put on our life jackets many parents told their kids okay well stick with your friends don't be alone don't wander out alone and good good that's that's good they have everything under control just keep calm and do what they say do what they say if you listen to them everything will be okay these words will haunt the parents forever a lot of them couldn't even face living with the guilt because so many children would die from listening to what they said from listening to what the captain told them to do the fery sank April 16th of 2014 but the story starts the day before on April 15th of 2014 so the students at tanan high school this is like their annual trip to tiu Island they considered it a right of passage like a tradition for everyone every single high school student looked it's the sophomore class they're so excited for this because for one their parents aren't going to be there it's just their class and a couple of teachers and I mean just imagine the adrenaline and all this planning that goes into something like this any inconvenience that day that would have otherwise bothered the crap out of them it didn't bother them anymore I mean they were waiting in line for hours at the Port of Inon which is also where the international airport is so tiu island is like the Hawaii of South Korea and Inon is actually on the Northern side of South Korea and they would get on a boat go all the way down the left coast of South Korea and then get into the ocean the Yellow Sea a little bit and then they'll hit a tiny little island called tiu Island it is the biggest destination spot for South Koreans it's beautiful it's like a cultural Mecca there's so much just there's a lot of fun stuff to do there so these kids are like yes chedu Island even when their fairy is delayed for 2 and 1/2 hours because of foggy conditions they're like that's fine are you kidding nothing is going to ruin this trip this is the best trip of my life it's a 300M trip by ferry it takes 14 hours but thankfully they would be going down the coast of Korea most of the time the left side of the coast so they're going to have cell service you know and it was outfitted like a cruise ship meaning that there's dorm rooms with bunk beds there's communal showers a convenience store a cafeteria you know which for high schoolers this sounds like a blast because they had selfservice a lot of them were able to reach out to their families and those very phones would later document some of their last moments on board there were 476 people on board the ferry including the crew now they board the ferry at 9 p.m. they were supposed to board 2 and 1/2 hours earlier but like I said a delay it's not that bad I mean the ferry is filled with 325 High School students 14 teachers 29 crew members and about a 100 or so other passengers so these passengers are going to tedu either on their own for vacation or there were a lot of truck drivers so they go and they get cargo off from this same boat and they drive it around tedu then they get their truck back onto the boat and come back to to and it's like a back and forth right so sounds like a huge boat oh yeah it's a massive boat here can you pass me my iPad I'm going to show you pictures so you're saying there's not only people but also like vehicles on there oh so so many vehicles and it's actually a cargo ship this is a cargo ship that loads on passengers on the side the H Ferry if you want to get technical is 75% profits from cargo movement and 25% profits from caring of passengers most of the pictures you're going to find now are of it sinking but here is it before it sink oh wow it's like a like a cruise ship like a cruise ship yes it it's massive so I mean a lot of these truck drivers were not very excited that they got onto the ferry with a bunch of high schoolers but these same truck drivers would help try and save a lot of these students later so it's not like the high school bought out the entire Ferry nor was it a ferry that belonged to the school there's a lot of people on here so all 476 people including the crew they board the ferry and they start their Journey now the night of the 15th was pretty calm okay so this is a picture that the kids posted or taken by one of the victims just of them boarding during the foggy night and it just looks like they're so excited and nothing climactic happens which is good dinner is served there's fireworks that are launched from the deck and there's pictures of that too at night the passengers they all go to sleep in their cabins now the high school was pretty good about booking rooms on one level for all of the boy students and then for the girl students upstairs right so they had different levels they all go to sleep around 11-ish and the next morning at around 11:00 a.m. they should be arriving in tiu island so it's like you go to sleep you wake up you have breakfast and 11:00 a.m. you're at tiu they're so excited for this now 7:30 a.m. is when everything starts to slowly unravel Hellman Cho and third mate Park so these are two of the people that are going to be steering the boat now they take over for the shift so the overnight crew can go into their cabins and take a nap or go to sleep the Helmsman is the person who's going to be steering and driving driving the ship if you will so Helmsman Cho he's at the bridge which is basically like the cockpit of the boat and he's you know doing all these commands and the captain was off duty in his room okay so the bridge is the driving room yes okay 30 minutes later around 8:00 a.m. breakfast is served in the cafeteria for all the passengers the crew and anybody else 8:2 a.m. autopilot is Switched Off to manual steering autopilot off man steering on just 7 minutes later this headward is sailing through the mangor channel now the mangor channel is very pertinent to this story there are other routes to take to get to Chu without going through this particular Channel I mean it really only saves like seven miles off of your trip but this channel is it's not some sort of urban legend where ships go missing and it's like a terrifying place it is a commonly used route but it's not calm it's not that safe it's a little unpr predictable it is actually has one of the most rapid and unpredictable currents in the Korean Peninsula it's got these title shifts meaning that you have to be super super careful when you're passing through this channel some areas of the channel have Rock hazards some random areas have shallow Waters but seart was traveling through a part where it was pretty calm conditions were relatively calm even CCTV footage shows kids and truck drivers socializing on Deck finishing up their breakfast most of the kids were still asleep in their cabins if I'm being honest cuz you know it's very early as of 8:40 a.m. everything is going well students are busy passengers are busy avoiding the students crew members are busy working within 9 Minutes everything would change 8:49 a.m. two crew members that were in charge of steering the ship decideed to manually steer the ship 15° to the left which is a well-known fact to All crew members aboard this hir that they cannot steer this particular vessel more than 5° in any direction mainly because of the amount of cargo it was holding so why did this her fairy even start to sink this her was known like I said to be a cargo ship 25% of their profits were just from passengers so being incredibly irresponsible and greedy they would almost every single time load way more cargo than was legally allowed it caused massive dangerous conditions on the boat and when they made this sharp turn which is supposed to only be 5° to the left they went 15° and none of this cargo none of these cars they had almost 200 vehicles on this cargo ship all of them slam to the left because none of them are being tied down side note when you read official reports it'll read that the boat was listing 30° to Port now what that means means and this is from online research I'm not like a boat girl I'm actually terrified of cruises but listing when a boat is listing it means that it's leaning to the left not going to the left but leaning to the left when it says listing to Port it means to the left when it says listing to starboat it means listing to the right you say listing how much degree 30° 30° that's a lot 30° and not to confuse it with trimming okay just a little quick I guess boat l but trimming is when the ship tips forward or backward and then rolling is when a ship is moving from side to side trying to find balance so these are terms that you'll see a lot in the official reports at one point it was rolling to try and find balance But ultimately it was listing to the left 30° none of this is great but 30° list doesn't mean capsizing it doesn't automatically mean it and it gets technical but I'm going to try and describe it as best as POS possible if the cargo had been tied down it probably might have balanced the boat back out the boat might have rolled and then eventually become stable again now even if it didn't become stable again there is something called ballast water okay this is going to get very technical all boats want to have a low center of gravity the Parts closest to the water needs to be the center of gravity so did you know most boats are filled with water it sounds counterintuitive but it's something called B B water which is just to bring the center of gravity right they had like no ballast water the center of gravity was at the top of the boat why oh so they can load more cars yes so there's no way that this boat is going to fix itself balance itself out no way let me show you some footage you know I can't Envision it as you though sometimes you throw a bol on the water it will float and then I'm just imagining the like filling that bolt to the BR of sinking and floating yes so it's like anything moves it will start sink precisely that's literally what this boat is doing this is from blackbox when the boat leaned initially so this is also why it's so pertinent that when you're aboard a boat or a plane they're tying down all the cargo that's why they're so particular about it if you've ever brought your car on a boat they tie it down so all of this cargo all of these vehicles slam to the left and this boat is not going to balance out this boat is 100% Going to caps siize meaning it's going to sink now the water is very cold in April it was about 54° fah it only takes 10 minutes for you to start feeling the effects of hypothermia you're not going to die in 10 minutes but most of the time but you start feeling loss of dexterity your fingers go numb you're starting to your teeth are clattering and full-blown hypothermia happens after about 2 hours so right at this moment the boat list it leans and the engines of the boat are cut the off-duty Captain Captain eunok he starts running he's like I got to figure out what's going on some crew members also run to the bridge of the boat and they're like what's going on now they're trying to assess the situation and when a boat this size starts to list or even starts sinking it's not like an earthquake not every single passenger is going to jerk up and go we need to evacuate this boat it feels dangerous but it almost feels like turbulence on a plane you feel like okay I need to wait it out and it's going to be fine you never really hit turbulence and you're like this plane is going down so that's kind of how everyone was feeling except for the crew because they knew better 8:52 a.m. just 2 minutes after the boat starts leaning to the left about 30° an emergency call is made by a student ch ch reported that this H was starting to capsize he was the first 911 call and that the water was coming into the decks he's like this is something's going on I'm on the deck and this is dangerous he was one of the few that understood the severity of the situation and he was probably confused because he could hear ringing through the PA system like the intercom system the speakers on the boats do not move just stay where you are it's dangerous if you move stay where you are every single student and passenger was told to stay put and now all hell breaks loose crew members are calling so many different people there's The chedu Vessel Traffic Service Korean Coast Guard chedu Coast Guard mpo Coast Guard Station their company Executives there's so many different people that this communication system is just bonkers the fact that they don't have a system in place of like if an emergency happens this is who I call is crazy to me nobody was getting anything done so much time initially is wasted in these key moments at 9:07 a.m. the crew confirmed to authorities the fery is capsizing and they confirmed that they needed help from the Korean Coast Guard they stated the ship's angle made evacuation impossible now here's where it gets crazy allegedly none of these authorities knew that there were 500 passengers on this well close to 500 passengers on this boat that's what they claim I don't believe it for a second but that's what they claim wait who claimed that the the police all the coast guards yeah they like no one told us we just thought it was the crew we thought it was a cargo ship get out of here because this hair was well known to be a passenger cargo ship so they say the ferry is about to roll over meaning it was listing to the left but because it was taking in so much water it was practically Bonk flat onto the left and now it was going to flip over and capsize so it's not even sinking just to the bottom like this it's going to be completely inverted the bottom is going to be the top the coast guard tells the crew on Sear to inform any passengers if there are any to put on their life jackets but they just say oh sorry our PA system is down it wasn't down down it's just bizarre okay so why did they lie yeah the co so it was like down at one point but then it comes back up and then a customer service rep is like playing that or like a customers relations crew member is playing the message of like do not move there was like no communication now the Coast Guard is like okay well if it's down then go personally tell the passengers the crew member is like okay I'm going to do that he walks out of the command center and walks around a bit and comes back being like I did that he did not do that he just lied he just blatantly lied to authorities and said yeah I told all the passengers to put on their life jackets what yeah do they not understand what the hell is going on no they do not the Coast Guard tries to tell captain Lee that you need to start thinking and acting fast they have deployed a vessel there was a patrol vessel nearby that was coming in about 10 minutes there was a helicopter that would get there in about 1 minute and Lee said yeah that's not enough to save everybody like there's you know there's more passengers than that cuz one helicopter you could save maybe a dozen people Max no maybe like six seven people keep this part in mind because later everyone goes and says oh when he said passengers we thought maybe a couple of passengers wow I mean right now everything falls on the captain right oh yeah but it's going down like what are you doing every second what are you doing exactly and you're going to die when you find out what he was doing so the passengers up until this point are still being told to stay where they are and do not move and some of the very first people rescued was the captain and a few of his crew the captain was rescued by one of the small Coast Guard boats and he wore ordinary clothes to disguise himself as a passenger oh my God once he was rescued he made no attempts and he actually was rescued I don't want to say before the chaos because right now is chaos but he was rescued at a point where it wasn't just utter all hell breaks loose and there are people drowning and dying right now he's like okay well I think chaos is about to hit so I'm going to leave that's so [ __ ] despicable yes yeah he's actually one of the most hated people in all of South Korea the whole nation he's alive he disguised himself as a passenger and once he was rescued this is even more Despicable he gets on the Coast Guard vessel and he doesn't let anyone know that he is the captain and that he has Vital Information that would help them in rescuing passengers he doesn't relay any information to them when time and information is the most important thing to save lives he made no attempts to tell them how many passengers where they were what the PA system was doing he did none of that he didn't tell them they were being told to stay in their rooms where they were effectively trapped inside the sinking boat none of that there is about 20 minutes of footage from some of the kids last moments and um one of the biggest I guess video files that were shared were actually shared by the father of the victim and he said that he wanted the world to know what actually happened to these kids so it was filmed by a park suong and kimdong they were both 16 best friends they were both on the level three of the boat which is where most of the male students were dorming these rooms had bunk beds about four boys per room suan and T they were two of the last ones to start the day they're hanging out in the cabin sitting on the edge of their cabin like bunk bed when they suddenly feel the boat Lurch to the left and at first everyone's confused but like I said it feels like airplane turbulence they're not freaking out yet then they start overhearing the speaker starting blaring do not move stay put it's dangerous if you move just stay where you are if you're watching the video on YouTube or Spotify I'm going to play you a clip of the video you can actually hear the PA system in the background repeating stay where you are over and over [Music] again so the boys on the third floor are freaking out some students who were on the deck come to the cabins to let everyone know to put on their life jackets the video footage from these students are stitched together to be about 20 minutes but it's it's probably the most raw footage I've ever seen in my life like it's not necessarily the most emotional in the typical sense meaning these kids aren't crying they're not banging on the windows to get out but you just see how real and relatable the situation is like the way that these kids at first they don't think the ship is going to sink because who thinks that you know they're kind of joking around but they're putting faith in the adults and the captain and the PA system and they're kind of playing around with each other and I I find that it's a way that they're coping with it and then eventually you hear that humor kind of dissipate and it gets replaced by them saying I don't want to die but they're still trying to keep this almost cool front in front of their friends you can hear other kids trying to check up on their friends and contacting their family members back home on their phones but near the end you can hear and see most of them start to feel very very scared you hear students say things like will the water really leak in the shaking is getting serious it's tilting so much this way I can't even move this is getting ridiculous I want to get off I really want to leave am I going to die it's not going to go down any further right like what the hell is going on hurry and rescue us what's wrong with these people I don't understand what's happening if they're telling us to wear life vest does that mean the ship is sinking [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] near the end one of the student even screams let me live who's going to take care of my mom and sister let me live and now all throughout this you hear the PA system in the back dear passengers a guidance announcement those of you who are inside the ship please do not move try to find a pole you can hold on to the kids also note that they start smelling something very bad they Wonder out loud if it's gas because it smells like boiled eggs which is typically a gas Lake scent who's talking in the system just it's like an automated message oh yeah nobody's even like talking oh yeah no most of the crew are like bye here's a button they press a button and then they dipped uhhuh mhm and it's very heartbreaking cuz you just hear that playing while these kids are repeating we don't want to die so more phone calls were placed between passengers and police the students are even telling the police please the ship is thinking I don't want to die we've been told to stay put we're not supposed to move another student can be heard saying really once the water starts coming in we really got to get out and another student says no no no no like it says we shouldn't move wow there are a few things to gather from the students last moments they're trying to stay strong they're trying to keep each other company and if you listen and you speak Korean and you listen to the whole clip a lot of these kids are thinking about their families or a lot of them are asking wait has anybody checked on the girls on the other floor or has anyone checked on the teachers like trying to see if their friends and even their teachers are okay some of them were joking around that this was the Titanic and saying the theme song which I saw a lot of like old people be like what's wrong with kids but that's how they cope they followed the rules they followed the advice of the adults who they believed were doing the right thing so they stayed put they trusted the captain even teachers were going around dorm to dorm to make sure that these kids didn't go because they thought again it was in the best interest in the safety and Welfare of the children for them to stay put one student texted his mom please if I don't survive Mom and Dad I love you another one texted his parents Mom Dad younger sister I love you guys so much and please don't ever let my little sister go on a school trip ever these are some of the kids last words so key points they're told to stay in their cabin they're told not to evacuate or come to the deck they also noticed that some of the zippers on many of the life fests were broken not only that but one of the boys said I just discovered something really horrible this life Fest says it was made in 1994 here look it's written in the back made in 1994 they didn't even have enough life vest to go around so a lot of the kids were sacrificing life vest to each other and to their friends they were asking if the teachers and the girls all had life vest the videos were captured on King dup's phone and he would not make it out alive so while this is the situation inside the boat mainstream media at the same time like imagine this is happening at the same time please just the irony of of this mainstream media starts reporting that all passengers have been rescued it sounds Stranger Than Fiction I don't even know how to explain to you what they thought that they were going to get out of this what the politicians thought was going to happen when this all came out to be lies and false but it's insane if this happened in a movie it'd be unbelievable there were reports that all passengers were rescued tanan High School parents let out a sigh of relief oh my God okay that cryptic text my child is fine they're probably not responding to my text my cost because they're probably on like a coast guard vessel right now and they're busy but that's fine they start noticing Something Fishy though they're trying to get in contact with their children no responses they contact other parents and they're like no we also haven't gotten any responses and when they watch the news very carefully the numbers aren't adding up and it's not like some sort of conspiracy but the government would report that they rescued all the passengers then a little bit later they'd be like okay well we have rescued majority of the passengers then it'd be like oh and these are not the exact figures but it would be something like We rescued 200 passengers and then later they'd be like We rescued 150 passengers so which one is it who are you rescuing how do you UNR rescue people you're a powerful nation and you can't even do basic arithmetic like what's going on so frustrated the parents they start traveling to chindo Island now chindo island is the closest island to where the crash happened not tedu island chindo island is very close to the southern tip of South Korea Island you'd have to go further out into the Yellow Sea the parents all decide to use the tundo gym to be their coordination place and um I Tru don't even know how to explain what I'm going to say next but first of all the people organizing this gym to make sure everyone is in the right place were the parents of the children on the boat they arrived there's no organization it's chaos so they take it upon themselves to make sure everything is organized not the coast guards not the local officials the police the parents take char charge the rescue teams had these giant whiteboards on the front with a list of names of passengers who have been rescued and of course parents are flocking and praying and wishing that it's their child on the list but these families are getting frustrated one parent grabs a mic and says here I can clearly see my younger sister's name on the list of survivors it says she was rescued but my sister isn't here so where is my sister who on earth made this list [Music] so these are authorities being like here's all the people We rescued and the parents are like we don't believe you because where are our children then another parent screamed please just get us a boat so we can save our kids get us a boat we don't care how much it cost I will will pay for it [Music] [Applause] [Music] another one said I feel like the parents including myself are here waiting for our children to die we want an answer from the person in charge why our orders not going through and nothing's being done you guys are clearly lying and kicking responsibility to others another parent screams let's all go together let's all go it together the parents are rushed to the harbor and to show you how they still had this unfailing hope of a parent they all grabb blankets on the way out they said when their kid gets saved they want to make sure that they have something to keep them warm they all go to the harbor and they wait there is nothing that they can do side note police were lined up at the edge of the harbor to prevent family members from going into the water whether to try and rescue a kid or to in a desperate attempt a parent screamed I want to jump in the water with them my loved one is under the water anger is not enough if I don't have my younger child I'm going to jump in the water thinking about my child in the water how can I as a parent continue to live eat and drink I hate myself someone near a mom tried to put one of the blankets on one of the moms because it was so cold and she cried what good is it staying warm when the kids are freezing out there they're freezing what good is it for us to stay warm not a single government official was at that Harbor nobody responded to the family's frustrations or questions [Laughter] [Music] wait this is nighttime yeah it's been a day it's been a day we're going to go back into the rescue just you wait oh my God yeah so again I mean the family's resorted to asking reporters on what's going on but none of the reporters most of the reporters at the harbor at this point were mainstream media reporters the only ones there that actually cared about helping the parents was newaa which is why I think a lot of parents continue to work with newa these are some of the most devastating Clips I've seen I mean just the desperation in these parents like their grief their worry their anger it just and so many of them is it's a [Music] lot so let's talk about the rescue cuz you mentioned like how is this night time so the res resue that government officials and media said was a success was not a success at all the Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched to the sinking ferry at 9:10 a.m. they arrive at around 9:30 a.m. two Rescuers come down and rescue six passengers via helicopter and these passengers were like on the deck so they're like waving they're visible they're outside now at 9:32 the helicopter starts communicating with the blue house and the blue house is like the White House and they keep asking is the situation serious the helicopter says the ferry is tilted and currently being flooded it hasn't sunken yet can you please send over a video now this is being heavily criticized because time is of the essence such an urgent incident is taking place and really I don't know what to say because it casually feels like the blue house is saying pix or it didn't happen and sure maybe videos can help them get a better understanding of what's going on but if this is the government responsible for running a literal company they better be more competent than this they keep calling back to the helicopter not giving commands not doing a full-scale command center operation but going did you send the videos yet just non-stop over and over and over again wasting time asking for videos and what's even crazier is that the helicopter is like well we didn't want to take any videos in case it gets leaked but the blue house is like it's fine text it to my phone what here there's footage I'm yeah yeah yeah yeah the blue house is basically like okay well we're going to hang up just call us back when you get the footage oh this isn't even this is like the smallest thing the blue house messes up so just you wait I mean a president was indirectly impeached because of this incident so soon after this the Coast Guard Patrol vessel 123 arrives at the ferry they throw over a raft and they head to the ferry to start their little rescue just anytime I say rescue don't think of it as a rescue think of it in quotations because it's just a bunch of people acting busy the first people to step into this rescue raft are the captain and crew members not all but a few they're like I'm out yeah they're like bye they have abandoned the ship but then so does the Coast Guard the Coast Guard The Vessel distances itself from the ferry and they try not to enter the ferry get close to the ferry they don't try anything meanwhile there's about three helicopters that are just circulating that are just loitering the area watching what's the deal what's the problem then no one's giving them any commands so they are all clueless on what the hell is going on and the captain is like just staying silent yeah and then the blue house is like well we can't tell you what to do unless we get a clear HD 4K video and then all these other authorities like the Coast Guard the mokpo Coast Guard the chindo authorities they're like well we don't know what to do have you tried calling the blue house wow so everyone's just waiting around and what's crazy is that there was a US Navy vessel that was nearby that rush to the scene and they're like hey hey we can help and the US Navy is so equipped whipped this vessel had 100 Marines on there 100 Marines South Korea was like it's fine we're waiting on a video the government shut them down yeah the government was like it's fine we're handling it oh my God I'm going on a little side note but another rant the US vessel the Navy vessel actually had helicopters on the vessel and they had launchpads so basically they didn't have to go back to land to bring survivors they could just go back and forth to their vessel that's parked very close to the sinking fairy so they could save an insane number of survivors one or two helicopters could just do non-stop back and forth in such short time we're going to dive into the US Navy later cuz there's a lot of yeah a lot of stuff there now anyways these are not Leisure helicopters either the helicopters that are circulating the ferry are Coast Guard helicopters and they make no additional effort so they saved six people initially that's it they make no additional efforts to rescue anyone they later claimed that they had no idea that there were passengers inside they thought the rescue was over and they were just surveilling the sinking of the fery to summ it up the rescue teams were just rescuing anyone that comes to the deck where you can visibly see them but every single passenger was told to stay in their cabins oh my God I cannot even imagine what that Captain was going through at that moment but we can't even imagine it because I don't think any of us have such little empathy for human life yeah like when he got out does he think that all the kids are going to come onto the deck eventually or does he think the co guard's going to break in yeah is he knowingly making a decision is like whatever I just got to save myself let them die okay my speculation is probably the last one because I imagine if rescue efforts were made he would be the last one rescued cuz that's kind of how it is in Maritime communities but maybe he thought there is a bigger chance he might die cuz I don't know what he was thinking genuinely I can't even guess no one is saving anyone unless they're visibly out on the deck like waving their arms around in these bright red life jackets like I said the problem is nobody was told to come out onto the deck the helicopters again claim that they had no reason to believe that there were passengers inside one helicopter Coast Guard officer even during an interview complains you know rescue is hard cuz you tell a person that you're rescuing to watch their step and they don't watch their step even if you tell them to [Music] a new step is like that's not that's not the point here that's not what we're talking about we're talking about the fact that you circled around the sinking fairy and made no attempts to save anyone like we didn't know there was anyone to save it's like why would you even bring that up it's so bizarre nobody asked now the annoying part is the helicopters that are circulating were talking separately with the blue house the giant vessel from the Coast Guard was speaking separately with the blue house as well as the Coast Guard there was no coordination it seemed like everything was all hell breaks loose nobody knows what they're doing blue house is still asking for videos and the only people that do something to save human lives do you see all these little boats those are civilian boats and fishermen no way they are the ones that took action they are risking their lives pulling up straight next to this capsizing ginormous fairy and it's very dangerous to get that close to a boat that's capsizing especially with boats like this and they're pulling people out of the water one of the fishermen hun in the blue boat he said uh he saw the boat listing to one side from afar and he realized that it wasn't balancing itself back out so he rushes over he starts rescuing passengers that were jumping into the cold water and he said it was hell it was agonizing there were a lot of people not enough boats the people in the water are yelling for help the fery was sinking fast he said he had no idea of how many people he saved but he was told he saved about 25 people he said but I don't know for sure the people that were trapped inside the fery couldn't come out they were just trapped inside the fery if everyone was saved maybe I would feel proud of myself but there's grieving parents out there so how can I feel proud even though he's one of the civilian saving passengers while the Coast Guard is doing nothing he lives with guilt for not saving everyone what's frustrating is when the fery starts to list if the captain had ordered everyone to put on a life jacket and get to the dock where they're visible the likelihood of every single person surviving was incredibly High the amount of vessels nearby not just civilian boats and fishermen but the Coast Guard ships the US Navy vessels I mean the the resources of that US Navy vessels like I said multiple helicopters Landing decks of the helicopters over a thousand Marines ready to assist in air sea rescue a thousand a thousand sorry did I say 100 you say 100 thousand a th000 Marines that's how big the US Navy vessel was wow 1,000 Marines and I know I'm American so it might not mean anything because it's just patriotism but if I'm In The Water Somewhere I want these Marines to save me and America and Korea are on really good terms so I don't know why they declin for help but a lot of people think it's president Park was known to have a big ego and was very very self-conscious about international relations but not in the way that you want your president to be not in the way of like oh of course we want good international relations but wanted to look good is all she cared about so the US Navy vessel just loitered around waiting to be used at any given moment they're like waiting to be called in because you know it'd be a [ __ ] show if they just went in there but they the call never came the rescue could have been so successful and these marines are specifically trained in airc rescue no way the Korean Coast Guard they were more like Patrol people they Patrol to make sure that there's no illegal fisherm from other countries fishing in their Seas most of the Korean Coast Guard was on a job to um look for illegal Chinese fish men literally that was their job so the US Navy why were they not used I still don't understand so one thing that you notice that's a problem is that all of these officials who get paid by the state by government tax dollars that the civilians pay they don't want to be the ones to make the call they don't want to be the ones held accountable so everyone keeps pushing responsibility onto each other and that's what resulted in so many of these different vessels and helicopters just waiting around while people are dying but there are heroes in this story so do you remember the first emergency call made was by a student CH mhm he stayed on the phone with Emergency Services trying to give them the exact location of the sinking fairy so then they should know there's kids in there yeah yeah exactly he tried to give the exact location because again I don't know why this was such a problem I don't know how they didn't know where the exact location was but remember the 2 and 1 half hour delay I guess they were thinking the boat was near closer to tedu because they didn't factor in the delay but they were closer to chindo Island so it was it was a mess and Tre he was sad that he wasn't able to call his parents the information that he was able to provide to authorities was very crucial tre's body was found and his parents were really confused because you know a lot of these other kids they all had selfservice and they called their parents but they never got a call from their son they were later told that he was the one on the phone with Emergency Services and they said you know it made sense we're just so proud of him and we think that God brought our boy into this world for this purpose to try and save people while captain Lee and a few of the other crew members escaped there were some crew members who refused Paran tansan and kingian they stayed aboard the ferry to help the students all three went down with the sinking boat Park young was the youngest part-time worker of the crew she was just 22 years old I mean she's barely older than these high school students 2 years prior to this her father passed away and her mom didn't have enough money so she dropped out of school and started working she was one of the first to have an easy Escape she was like near the dock she could hear the kids though and the PA system was still telling them to stay put so she runs to the ship took off her life jacket gave it to a younger kid nearby who didn't have one and like I said she's basically basically a kid herself she starts stumbling running as fast as she can through the halls and yells for the students to evacuate she's handing out life jackets she tells them the jump ship she guides some 50 students to the civilian fishing boats who lift them out of the water and into the boat One Survivor remembers grabbing Park's arm and saying okay just come jump in the water with us like you don't have a life jacket but I'm going to hold your arm and she said after saving you guys after saving the rest of them I'll get out crew goes at last and then she just disa appeared again to save more kids she kept going and the last time someone saw her alive was going deeper into the water where it was already chest level to see if there were more students her body was later found floating face down um still no life jacket even in her last moments she never wore one because there wasn't enough life jackets for both passenger and crew two other crew mates Chong Yan and Kim gwan they refused to escape with cowards they wanted to save the kids Chong and Kim also could have been very easily rescued but they decided to go back down and help the children they were both 28 and they were actually getting married later that year to to each other their bodies were later found as well and they had spent their last moment saving children these three part-time crew members would formally be recognized by the government as National martyrs because it was just a such a stark contrast to the captain and the crew I mean most of the crew who were among the first to abandon the ship Yong was another crew member that went down with the ship he's 45 years old and he called his wife and he told her this is where you need to find the savings for our teenage son's college tuition okay and when she tried to plead with him he told her I love you but I can't talk I have to go save the kids his body was found month later and his face was unrecognizable and there was a walkie-talkie found near him suang was a young teacher and it was her second year teaching at tanan high she was very young and it was her first year on the school field trip when the boat started sinking she texted her mom mom the ship is sinking her mom called her and was like hurry put on a life Fest and she responded calmly mom the students are all wearing life Fest indicating there weren't any more for her she texted her boyfriend after this and said I'm sorry there's no more life Fest thank you and I love you and he calls her and she says I can't I'm sorry my battery is low and some of the students still need to call their parents her last words were I love you thank you to her boyfriend another teacher was Co tang huk and Mr Co was a PE teacher oh my God this picture this is the P teacher he was a PE teacher for the last decade and at his old job before he got to tanan there was actually a fire in the school and he was given like an award by the school because he ran in head on Into the Fire to save students from the burning fire he also went down and I mean there was no question what he was going to do he was going to save the kids he left behind a loving wife and two sons his body actually wouldn't be recovered until 3 years after the incident there was a memorial service held for him and a student came and said Mr Co could have escaped early but he stayed to take care of us until the very end so these are all heroes and it's not really a heartwarming story though where you feel good in the end you're like yes the hero won because nobody wins there's like way too many villains in this one to even get close to the number of Heroes there's another story though on the boat where a six-year-old girl this reminds me of it one but a 6-year-old girl was there with her parents and her 7-year-old brother so they were part of the passengers that were going on vacation to tedu she was passed one by one from adults to the water to one of the fishermen's boats all the way um her parents and her 7-year-old brother would all perish everyone worked to get this girl to safety and she would be the youngest Survivor of seor now civilians were the only hope for these children because of the government the authorities they were doing nothing like I said most of these boats saving these people are civilians Fisher commercial IAL fishermen just regular citizens not government workers but many civilian divers who saw the news said they were gearing up to volunteer as Rescuers these are like professional divers who have been doing this that want to volunteer to save these kids right they know the dangers they're gearing up they're coming from tord and all these places but then the news the news starts flooding that everyone has been rescued so they're like oh okay I guess I don't have to go like why would I go into the water if everyone's already rescued out of the water and it wasn't until hours later there were these like rumors and these kind of like fishy things that these volunteer divers were even picking up on cuz you know these are people who know how to dive and the way that the news was reporting these rescues just didn't sound right so they're like why don't I just head to chindo Island and see what's going on maybe they need me maybe they don't I mean at least I can try right so many precious hours were lost because these civilian divers didn't go at the time because I mean nobody's blaming the civilian divers here they're risking their lives to save others but the fact that they thought everyone had been rescued it's just so frustrating how grossly MH handled this was many of the civilian divers they volunteered and they started arriving at around 400 p.m. that day the boat started sinking at like 9:00 a.m. they got there around 400 p.m. and they were told to report to a command ship of the Coast Guard that was stationed near the ferry so these volunteer divers they don't come to play they're suiting up gearing up mentally preparing themselves but the coach Coast Guard is not letting them do their jobs one of the civilian divers said it was bizarre I was being walked around this Coast Guard vessel like come here let me introduce you to my colleague oh and this is my captain here oh and then this is my senior colleague what did you say your name was ah how long have you guys been diving ah yeah oh that's cool oh you know my colleague is from that area do you want to come to the cafeteria they prepared Ramen this is not an exaggeration the the rescue diver said they prepared and he was so disgusted he just didn't understand he saw some of the top dogs aboard this command ship two star Navy officers chief of the Coast Guard chief of the West Coast Coast Guard the chief of the mpole Coast Guard fancy suits and shoes tip tapping away on their laptops wait I'm confused like they're not sending people down the water no that's what they're doing just tip tapping on their laptops the ramen was even brought into the conference room for these Chiefs to eat and the diver that was interviewed said he wished he could have recorded the video of these Chiefs just digging into these noodles like pigs they said they ate the ramen noodles had a meeting for 5 minutes and then the chiefs were like well we got other places to be so bye he was sickened to see that the chief of the West Coast Guard went to a press conference like immediately after this the whole Ramen debacle in his uniform with all of his Badges and stated as of today 164 vessels 24 aircraft 178 special rescue workers are doing our best in conducting a search of the area the civilian diver had no words just no words but he's not alone many of the civilian divers came forward anonymously later to say that the Coast Guard would not let them do their job and it wasn't even a job they're volunteering just wouldn't let them do it it was just non-stop like oh come meet my colleague oh are you sure that's up to code your your diving suit are you sure what is it made out of they're like what is your deal let us go save some children right now so the parents now remember how the parents wanted to rent a boat to go out to see for themselves and to save their children well the very first day a group of the parents do rent a boat and they go to report back to the others what's going on and one dad screamed they told us civilians can enter the water but the Coast Guard can't what is this what they're basically saying oh you want to dive in and get your kid dive in and get your kid but we can't he's screaming what is is this what like what is this the civilian diver one of the civilian rescue divers had volunteered to go on the boat with them and he was explaining like with these conditions the Coast Guard should be going in the conditions are calm this is like Optimal rescue conditions right now earlier that day civilian fishermen were trying to break Windows to save people but the Coast Guard said no we can't do that so they can't break Windows they can't go into the ferry before it sinks to save people and now that part of the ferry is sunken they can't can't try to rescue people by diving they can't do anything what are you doing why are why do you exist why do you have a job a reporter asked a parent who saw the fairy sinking and said and what are the Coast Guard doing right now and he says as of right now there is nothing they're doing April 16th was the morning the boat started listing okay now at 10:52 reporters went out to the scene and still nothing was being done 10:52 p.m. a whole day had passed 14 hours later yeah and nothing was being done um let me show you how calm the waters were you were saying 14 hours later the bul is still sinking yeah it's still actively sinking and this is like you need to dive in so what happens on these boats is time is of the essence of course the golden hour was the first hour and a half that the boat even started listing way in the morning at like 9:00 a.m. when the C was like tell everyone to stay in their cabins that was golden hour almost everyone could have been saved had they just gotten to the deck they would have been saved okay now the next Golden time was considered the next 72 hours because there's actually a phenomenon that's quite common where there's air pockets inside of boats so these divers need to go in and get these people inside of these air pockets so if you're in a room where no water has seeped in which is sometimes possible you're alive you have about 72 hours so these drivers need to get down there and hope that there's a lot of air pockets yeah yeah even there if there's one person they should be doing everything yes yes this is how still and calm the water was do you see how there it's dark where are all the Coast Guard vessels where are the divers this should be lit up like a command center this should be lit up like the 4th of July this is what it looked like just it's the most peaceful water there's no waves really nothing no one's out there during press conferences the Coast Guard made it seem like it is pure chaos out there with our rescue efforts we've got how many ships how many people oh you guys South Korea just you wait Coast Guard's got you this is what it looked like they said the water was as calm as a lake there wasn't a single wave but nothing was being done you could still see the ferry it hadn't fully capsized yet there were no rescue efforts I mean imagine the anger of the parents seeing that and they can't do anything for their children they were yelling at their boat to the Coast Guard do something they screamed they're alive they're alive you have to rescue them the Coast Guard never responded all they did was Circle this her fairy over and over what's their excuses now they said that they had to like survey the area that's like the thing that they constantly say in this whole tragedy is they needed to survey the conditions they needed to make sure they could go in I don't get it who's in charge I'm so confused about this every Coast Guard official is saying it different thing but all of them have the same message of we're doing everything we can but nobody's doing anything okay so it sounds like there's someone from the top not letting them do something right so it's speculated it's not that they were not letting them do something but they had no idea how to do anything the Korean Coast Guard was not trained for search and rescue they can dive in and and P people so they're like we're probably going to die so they were allegedly just telling the blue house whatever you're suggesting we do we're not capable we can't do it then where's the capable people where's the but they didn't say we're not capable they're like conditions won't let us the condition is too bad the condition is too bad so then I don't think South Korea would then go to the US and be like hey the condition is too bad y'all get in there a lot of these politicians it was like a balancing game they want help but their reputations depend on them not asking for help whether it's from different departments in Korea whether it's civilian rescue divers whether it's the US Navy they did not want to ask for help but they themselves did not have the competency to do the search and rescue but they couldn't admit to that so they're all just like shifting blame around so for president Park I imagine it's embarrassing that you don't have a team of qualified people to do search and rescue wow in your whole nation like imagine the US Navy up this bad you don't think America would be like I guess we're not a cool powerful Nation I guess we're it's just a lot of like reputation control and none of these Coast Guard officials wanted to be the one to do it cuz there's like five different coast guards that's another huge problem it's not like oh just US Navy okay cuz then you have a top dog that's like okay well if the president doesn't want to do anything I got to at least do something right but there's like the mukpo Coast Guard the Coast Guard of the West Coast the regular Coast Guard there's so many people involved that they're like well let's just see if they do something cuz we don't want to do cuz what if we do it and we it up then it's on us so we just wait like they want to do something they can do it so they're all bystandard they're all bystandard they care more about their reputation and their careers yeah the parents are screaming what are you doing you need to do something get in the water and they even screamed I'm not saying this is easy work but you need to at least show that you're trying there are survivors in that ship what is wrong with you it's so heartbreaking cuz a dad on the boat tries to jump into the water and everyone tries to stop him oh and what's crazy about this is that the Coast Guard official documents report that they were doing underwater rescue efforts at that exact time that the parents are out there watching them there was no such thing so how do your report say that you were doing intensive underwater rescue they stated that they did Rescue all night long but all they did was get on a little boat and circle the capsizing fairy at one point one of the coast guards drives up close to it and just like knocks on the fairy he like a parent who saw that said I can't believe I was inches away from my child and all I could do is helplessly watch him die so the parents the reporters on this boat that saw this they saw the discrepancy of no actual rescue efforts being done they recorded videos of it sent it to all the major News Network so the reporters on there were a lot of trusted reporters by parents did you know at first the parents were allowed a boat out there by the Coast Guard and it was filled to the brim with mainstream Media news reporters there wasn't enough room for parents the parents forcibly like kicked them out but just the disgust that these media reporters were like well I know that we said two seconds ago that we already rescued everyone but like can I go take some more pictures out there so their trusted reporters went out with them and they sent all of these videos to mainstream major news networks not a single one of them aired it not a single one of them talked about the discrepancy because they were under President Park president Park was known as a very very fascinating woman who loved to bully reporters and mainstream news Medias that was her thing so they like this makes her look bad so we can't post it yeah because then we're going to be on her list that was the very first day and night of rescue efforts that's all they did nothing I mean they did nothing the next day April 17th it doesn't get any better there is still no control tower no organized operation nobody has one person that they're really reporting to even the president president Park she was MIA for 7 hours the first 7 hours of the incident she was nowhere to be found we're going to get to it later so the president and the prime minister they visit the area in chindo island where the parents are gathered apparently a boatload of politicians lawmakers and parents had gone out on a boat to go visit the Coast Guard and parents were disgusted I wish I was eloquent I wish I could describe to you what kind of emotion that must have been but the parents said they stood there and they watched the Coast Guard point at Maps they watch the politicians in suits go it was like watching people pretend to do a job it was like watching a skit they felt like they were losing their minds the Coast Guard is saying things that they know are not true like oh we worked so hard last night to do underwater rescue they're pointing at random Maps pointing at pictures of inside this H fairy parents get on onto the Dock of the Coast Guard vessel and they see divers go under the surface of the water kind of like flap around for 5 minutes and then come back out they said it's like a sick joke like everyone's pretending like I imagine I would want to shake someone by their shoulders like hello can you wake up like there's people dying the parents decide that they can't trust anyone so they start their own task forces and have coordinated group chats to relate information in a clean and orderly fashion they were more informed than the Coast Guard one parent actually confronts a government official who tells him we were doing rescues all night the parent gets in his face and says stop lying and manipulating the news and tell me look me in the eye and tell me you were doing rescues all night the government official seems shocked and tries to grab his phone and call someone like uh we were we were the government officials actually seem shocked that the parents have such upto-date information I guess they didn't think that the parents would be that coordinated like parents would call them out for every single discrepancy and they were shocked and every single one of them has the same reaction they're saying something so confidently we We rescued this many people oh this is what we've been doing the parent confronts them with their lies they all grab their phone and call someone one of the parent literally goes why are you lying to me we have our parents on a boat out there I just talk to them that is a blatant lie the government official goes and and and they were at the Coast Guard boat oh and he grabs his phone oh yeah y h despicable yeah despicable I mean now at that moment the Prime Minister shows up at the chindo gym and he's second in charge to the president in this country I guess nobody informed him that the parents are not in the dark on all of this that the parents are not going to be like thank thank you prime minister for your efforts all night long because I think he walked in expecting some things and questions but instead he was chased down and had water bottles thrown at his face open water bottles which I think is symbolic in hindsight in the end police protected him and escorted him out president Paran also visited with this whole Entourage of security and politicians parents were a bit more receptive to her because at the end of the day this is the most powerful person in the nation if anyone is going to help them it's going to be her so even if they hate her they can't show it but they were let down once more she stated I just went to the rescue team and I want to assure you guys all the government mobilized all resources and Personnel to retrieve the victims the Coast Guard Chief also goes up next to the president and claims that he has sent 500 divers to the rescue the parents know that this is a blatant lie they are inrag they start screaming at the chief of the Coast Guard and side note there's video of this and president Park doesn't even seem surprised that the parents are screaming at his lies almost as if she knows very well herself that those are blatant lies because I imagine if I'm the president and my chief just lied to me I'd be like H why are they booing that but she looks like she was expecting it family said they were straight up stunned at the blatant lives that were being shoved in their face it was unbelievable also parkkan starts using this as an opportunity to say that nobody cares about like their kids are still out there they want rescue teams and she states so what we're going to do with this is this is an opportunity to conduct a thorough investigation on the cause of the accident and severely punish those involved that's not what anyone is talking about right now that was the whole second day of the rescue the second most valuable day that's how it went the third day April 18th a lot of developments took place and none of them were good this H fery was now fully submerged parents went out and they couldn't see the boat anymore and they cried government also let a private company step in for rescue efforts a company called undy started to lead the rescue attempts but it was more of a recovery attempt it's like a half rescue half recovery so there's still a chance that you can live 72 hours in an air pocket but it was guesstimated that most of the bodies being retrieved would be dead so it be a recovery attempt now they sucked undy sucked so bad I think that this was just like a government contract bid that won I don't even understand how they were in control of this now the idea from the get-go was the Coast Guard or someone since their the Coast Guard is useless would inject air into this H Ferry this is going to help with multiple things it would hopefully improve its buoyancy and this is very important because if the the boat is fully submerged in water it's going to start sinking and divers cannot be in there when it's sinking to the bottom so they need it to somewhat still be near the surface of the water makes it easier for rescue or recovery and if there is human life injecting air could create like help those air pockets survive longer that's what undy was here to do the Coast Guard couldn't do it clearly so undy is here they should have done this like first thing when rescue started but the Coast Guard didn't have the tools so on the third day they're like we're bringing in a private sector okay we're bringing in the private sector und's going to do this and undy comes in with these massive air compressors they're old they industrial use not compatible with human life meaning if you injected this into a room you'd probably kill the people in the room the air is like autog gas air and they're super old and outdated I mean you what but undy Marine shows up with these compressors like with their full chest they're like yeah these are the ones like are you not even ashamed not only do they not have the proper equipment but they also don't have the experience again the US Navy was nearby and offered their assistance once more they said we have new compressors and we also have qualified professionals that utilize these compressors and have done rescue efforts such as this one they were denied South Korea said thank you though but no this day also marked the first discovery or recovery of bodies three bodies were recovered by civilian divers but mainstream media said all of it was due to undy undy recovered these bodies and that makes me so mad because these civilian divers gave up a lot to help they were not part of the Navy or the Coast Guard they were moms and dads corporate employees professional divers in other Industries they were stay-at-home parents the only thing that these divers had in common was that they likeed to dive they were good at it and they wanted to help people so they left their homes and their families to drive to this southern part of Korea to do the most important dive of their lives many of these civilian divers would end up permanently injured paralyzed traumatized depressed and some would even lose their lives because of this dive they told each other minimize shock when you're down there shock is no good for anyone the divers all made a pack to not look the students in the eye because once you do that you will never be the same and it'll make it harder for you to go back down underwater they talked about how it was the hardest thing um the ones that drowned they would have to recover their bodies right so their families could put them to rest but there was so much debris in the water cuz think about this big ship there's so much things falling apart walls were collapsing and the hallways became narrower than your shoulder width a lot of them had to squeeze through hallways bad weather delayed the use of a diving bell so they had to use these super flimsy flexible air hoses but if they're twisting and turning in there it could easily snap break or it could be folded to a point where they're not getting air anymore it could get caught in things it was very very very dangerous they had to go down in teams of three and they would never forget the things they saw there were bodies in life jackets floating around in the ship now and the divers had to reach up grab the bodies and hug them so that they wouldn't keep floating up they would find a window that they could break and get rid of all glass and debris then they would carefully push the body through the open window so that they could float to the surface if a body was found without a life jacket two divers one diver would have to wrap their arms around this dead body and the second diver would have to pull them through a rope to the surface the divers said they found many of the students hugging each other holding each other or tied together they said how hard it must have been for those kids with the cold water rushing in and the Darkness coming over them I thought to myself why did I even offer to volunteer with this if I can't even save one life most of the students had broken fingers they tried till their very last moment to break the doors or Windows to escape breaking their fingers in the process after seeing this a lot of divers would never be the same Kim Zang one of the civilian divers said he was at home when he watched the news and his diver buddies called him up and was like you need to get here now we need to save some kids so he drove hours from his house and told to the southern coast he spent two months away from his family risking his life to squeeze into these small openings these dangerous conditions I mean to find bodies they worked in 3-hour shifts he did it for 2 months 2 months 3 hours of rest 3 hours of diving 3 hours of rest but like the other divers he was having a hard time resting no matter how exhausted he was the stress of the Dives wrecked his body the anxiety wrecked his body finding these water bloated corpses of children he said he could never get that image out of his mind and he had nightmares anytime he closed his eyes he said we were touching each of these children with our bare hands as we brought them up even now I can't hold my wife or children I can't stand skin in addition to the psychological trauma he has he suffered a shoulder injury that needed surgery so while he was diving a luggage compartment in the H broke open and massive luggage tumbled straight onto his shoulder he had to get surgery and he says he drinks every day now he just drinks because it's his medicine in the end his biggest regret isn't even volunteering his biggest regret was getting there too late he said I couldn't even save one person many of the civilian volunteers they all went through so much so 43-year-old Kim guong he helped bring back 25 bodies at one point he lost Consciousness during a dive got swept away in the current was saved had to go to the ER for treatment he stayed in the hospital for 3 Days the minute he got back out he was back in the water he went into places where the Coast Guard weren't even attempting to go not even pretending like they were going to go he went to places the Coast Guard deemed too dangerous and he brought back children in his arms he said the victims were Tangled together in their utter Terror and I prayed and cradled each one of them as I brought them up the divers did their best while the country did nothing the country did nothing especially for the divers do you know what the divers got in exchange for their contribution nothing okay his only thing that he got the only reason he did this was for the families of the victims to give them closure and to do right by the children of the nation but his body was wrecked he cannot dive anymore he has mounting hospital bills he has paralysis in his left thigh the government refused to deem the 39 injured civilian divers during the search operations as wounded by righteous causes which would allow them to get health benefits and not have medical bills in fact the government actually turned their back on volunteer divers they tried to charge a few of them for negligence when a diver died during a mission they said well it's because of you other divers didn't check his equipment but the Coast Guard was never held accountable divers had to go to court to explain I am not responsible for another diver's death I am just volunteering to save bodies the divers that all tried while the Coast Guard did nothing they were being used and abused in 2015 Kim testified about the trauma that he suffered from handling all the dead bodies during the rescue efforts he said he cannot forget it he will never forget it and in 2017 he took his own life his final text to his loved ones were I'll see you in a better place in the next life I'm sorry so you're mad I'm mad okay let's all be mad at someone and there's a whole lot of people to be mad at in this case chongin fairy company the Coast Guard the former president and mainstream media so let's talk about chongin company first the fairy company this is the connection to the last episode if you listen to it and the fery company's sick obsession with overloading the cargo on their fairies so this particular fery this hair had a capacity of holding 90 vehicles on that day there were 124 cars and 56 trucks wow none of them were properly secured none of them were even tied down they were just driven onto the cargo port and just left on Park they also took in more cargo than allowed for that size of a boat their maximum cargo hold is 987 tons but they took in 1,157 tons again none of which was tied down do we know why the person at the beginning turned the bow so much 15° unclear to this day we think it's incompetence just straight up was like trying to do five but turned 15 cuz it's manual steering and I'll tell you why we think it's incompetence because no one was trained like none of the Crews were trained oh and side note not all big boats are like that uh many big boats can turn at even higher degrees and be fine with this specific boat it was like a industry known thing between this company that this boat can only turn 5° because it's unbalanced it's not a universal boat thing it's like this boat can only turn 5° now it's not good to do a lot of degrees of turns but still this is crazy the boat starts leaning to the left which causes all the cargo and all the cars to slam to the left which starts leaking in tons of water now remember the ballast water that I was talking about we have some exact measurements here like I said it's there's a very important purpose it keeps the center of gravity low but there is another thing that it does so it's actually compartmentalized the water it's not just like one big water tub it's like you have the left tub and the right tub and I'm simplifying it and then in between these two tubs you have these pumps so what happens is if the boat starts leaning to the left you start pumping this water to the right tub okay to balance it out the pumps were broken the pumps were broken that is I can't even describe to you how bad that is the pumps were broken and not only that there's like a mathematical equation to figure out how much balanced water is needed to offset the cargo weight typically it's around the two times Mark meaning you need double the water for the cargo so if there's 100 lb of water you can only have 50 lb of cargo mhm mhm okay in this case this hward was carrying about 580 tons of ballast water for the amount of cargo they had they needed 2,000 tons of ballast water they had a fourth yeah so it's completely off so off and that's what they started with okay uh the crew actually pumped out hundreds of tons of water from the bottom to accommodate additional cargo when they were loading and as the boat goes you actually lose more ballast like water because um part of that compartment is fuel so as your boat is going you lose fuel cuz you're using the fuel so it becomes lighter that's why you need extra water so let's work our way up the food chain the first people at fault were the captain and the crew not all the crew but many members of the crew crew mates were investigated for their abysmal handling of the evacuation and one crew mate in particular was told verbatim by authorities remember to go tell everyone to put on a life jacket yeah well he didn't do it he was just like oh yeah I told them but he just walked around the deck and was like okay yeah what's crazier is that all the crew members that were on the bridge with the captain they all left with him they were some of the first to be rescued but that also meant nobody else was on the bridge anymore to keep open communication with rescue efforts so them leaving the boat wasn't just bad that they were abandoning the boat but there was no one to communicate with them on the boat so all these coast guards are like we're trying to talk to people on the boat but like nobody's on the boat cuz you guys are all here that's cool a former U US Coast Guard investigator believes if those announcements of every passenger to stay in their cabin were not made the passengers most likely just human nature would have gone to the deck to see what was going on then they would have become easily visible and more easily accessible to Rescuers now of course it's heavily discussed and speculated how much of this announcement played a role in the deaths passenger coup a Survivor said that the passengers were trapped inside by windows that were very hard to break he said he actually wanted to escape earlier but those non-stop announcements kept telling him to stay put he said the rescue was horrendous we were all wearing life jackets we all had time if people had jumped into the water they could have been rescued from the water another Survivor said the announcement told us to stay put but the ship was already sinking there were a lot of students who didn't get out of the ship in time because of those announcements okay fine so the captain and these crew members minus a few of the hero crew members they are horrendous but how do they up so majorly like doesn't even make sense how do you even not have a loose plan on what to do in situations like this that brings us to the company that owns this he fairy chongin Marine company chongin Marine is like a different kind of evil okay this is in connection with our last episode Tong Jin's company's biggest shareholders are owned by another company that is controlled by a billionaire Church leader founder yubang un's two sons and in recent years it was discovered that the U family received a total of at least $3.82 million from the fery company they got paid out like about $4 million from this fairy company and you're like okay that's great right that means the fairy company is doing well no the fairy company was in financial ruins the year before the sinking they reported a loss of $800,000 that year they were cutting down on spending because the bottom line wasn't making sense and you know where they were cutting down on spending it was not give their shareholders money it was in the training and safety department of employees and new hires prosecutors discovered that so much money was being funnel to the billionaire family nothing was left for the actual company nothing was left to train the employees the company was so starved of funds that they spent only $2 on the safety training for the H's crew members $2 you get hired the company spends $2 to train you and you know what that money was spent on it was not an actual training the $2 was spent to buy a fake paper certificate that said you are now qualified to be a crew member you have done your safety courses life jackets life rafts were left uninspected from the '90s and the life jackets weren't even stored where they were supposed to be which is on the upper decks or near Evac points evacuation points they were stored in the passenger cabins crew members who worked for the company admitted in interviews they would have had no clue what to do in case of an emergency they've never had an evacuation training or a drill to put it in persp perspective how horrendous that is the US Coast Guard regulations require passenger vessels to hold an abandoned ship drill and fire drill every single week and it's not even like a he haha we did it moment you have to lower a Lifeboat onto the water and start the engine of that life boat that is the full drill so it's a fulls scale drill clearly this headward did not do this and Korean coast guards never regulated or followed up to any of the drills are training but that still doesn't explain why the ship sank well we have the O overloading of the cargo we have the ballast water but there's actually more all of that is making the balance of this boat just unstable okay it's becoming more and more topheavy the center of the gravity is not good right now but it was worse because chongin bought the S fairy from another company and modified it and added two more levels on top to accommodate passenger cabins which would bring in more money for them raising up the center of gravity even more making it extra top heavy which you don't want they also underwent major renovations to create an art gallery where you guessed it they housed Mr yun's art or should I say ah's art that he would sell to them at inflated prices in the boat in the boat there was an art gallery with oh also more weight was added because they added these marble slabs thick marble slabs to Showcase his work and the company knew that what they were doing was dangerous you can't even act like they were ignorant because it was discovered that between 2003 and 2011 chongin had five crashes prior to the sinking of this her fairy it was even recommended that their license be suspended or revoked but that never happened they actually purchased more fairies after 2011 they were also asked in 2003 to stop using the mangle Channel because you don't know what you're doing in there you guys were in an accident in there but they continue to use it because it shaves off a precious 7 miles on the trip to tiu which is 7 mil of fuel that they're saving on also in 2011 um tongin company tried to board a passenger Ferry I think in the Han River where it it's during holiday season the maximum capacity for that fairy was 200 people they tried to board 500 and the only reason that a tragedy didn't occur is because passengers on board threaten to Riot they were like no you're not going to board that many people this is insane but that's how blatant they were in bending the rules and putting lives in danger doc employees had even complained that anytime they helped load or unload this Hare it would just roll around in the water company officials decided tar should be sold because of the complaints and the safety concerns but that was vetoed by Mr billionaire yuun himself the executives instead started repeating the new mantra for the company which was load as much cargo as possible none of the cargo was ever chained or lashed down down meaning it would just smash around the saddest part to all of this is that all the overloading of this H it brought it an extra $3 million that is $10,000 for every passenger that died that is it $10,000 for a life what's insane is that there's Regulators for these things you can't just start a maritime commun company and be like okay well I'm going to do whatever I want on my boats there's Regulators the Korean register of shipping was an agency that's responsible for these things they never followed up or facilitated inspections thankfully many of those inspectors and Regulators are in prison and so now you know we know that Mr Yan's children the billionaire kids if you guys have watched the last episode they were also in prison and Mr U the billionaire was found suspiciously dead in his apricot Orchard during the Nationwide hunt for him immediately after this oh that was the time yes like right right after this everyone was like what the hell is going on with chongin they're like who owns chongin oh the major shareholder is this random company well who owns that company there was a Manhunt now it is speculated and I think all these people should be in jail by the way but it is speculated that the Manhunt for them was a very smart tactic for the president park at the time because she was putting a lot of heat on the family versus government response she was saying I mean government response was bad but like this is the reason it even sunk in the first place yeah so the corruption and incompetence does not end there what about the Coast Guard I mean I don't think I need to reiterate how badly they dropped the ball on this but it was horrendous like they should be ashamed to even wear a uniform the first rescue vessel Coast Guard vessel 1 12 3 they went to the ferry and they waited 20 minutes before they even rescued the captain cuz they were like well we got here but we don't know what to do so they just sat around until someone was like I guess you could send a small boat and try to rescue someone do you see anyone they're like yeah we see some people on the deck they're like okay it was also revealed that the Coast Guard not only refused to rescue people essentially but they made it harder for civilians or other nations to help so when civilians came and they're like I'm going to try to rescue people the Coast Guard was like inspecting their stuff looking at their stuff like I don't think you can you shouldn't do that where's your license where's your you have a fishing license or were you out here illegally fishing I'm trying to save people I'm trying to do your job they're like the parking ticket police and people are dying they also were so bad um eventually once it was deemed that everyone was dead the US Navy and a lot of their professional divers were brought in to recover a lot of the bodies that were hard to find the US Navy took one look at how the Korean Coast Guard was handling things and said unless you fix this list of insanely abysmal conditions of safety we are not sending a single American in there so the US Navy and professional divers were finally after like months asked to come in and rescue some B not rescue but recover bodies and the US said okay fine we'll go take a look the Navy looks around the where the fery had sank they have a list of the most egregious safety violations that they've ever seen and they're like we are not sending a single American into the water unless you fix all of this first and the Korean ghost card was like then I guess we'll just figure it out ourselves they just refused to make it safe for anyone to dive it was bizarre the US Navy was like this is bizarre just how unprofessional and unsafe and ultimately how annoying you're making this and impossible for people to even help you like you can't do your job but now you're making it impossible for me to do your job ridiculous now another thing about the Coast Guard um remember the MK pooke Coast Guard where the first helicopter comes and saves someone right well another helicopter comes in to save people and they don't really ever save people because he's just a helicopter driver he actually asked the head chief of the mpo Coast Guard to like get get in his helicopter so that they can save people and the chief was like oh I'm really tired from last night's work and I feel like the helicopter noise is going to give me a headache so he just sent one of his officers who just circled around the ferry the whole time and then uh once all of this starts getting leaked you know what a lot of these entities do they start deleting files Mass deleting files and the tundo authorities that were also involved they actually went as far to delete all their CCTV footage from inside inside their government office building the day of the incident so at first only low-ranking officials and government officials were investigated and prosecuted the families were enraged because let's be real in the hierarchal Korean Society you think this low-level intern is making the shots like he's making the calls he's like no we're not sending divers in you think so no absolutely not so they pushed and pushed and in the end president Park was facing so much heat she announced a plan to break up and defund the Korean Coast Guard she created new department but honestly it's just a PR move I'm sure most of the Coast Guard was moved to that new department and the next president president Moon would just revive the Coast Guard in 2017 so nothing really changed many more arrests were made more than 150 Regulators crew members ship inspectors and officials were indicted including the captain of this H fery he was charged with murder and he said I bow my head and I just thought if people were leaving the ferry without the proper equipment they would drown or drift away in the water so that's why he told them to stay put why the don't you stay put then yeah cuz he wasn't wearing a life vest when he was rescued so why don't you stay put with that much guilt and also public hate and scrutiny and a criminal trial I would rather have died on the boat so I just think it's so fascinating that some people have such a strong will to live that you would rather kill people to live nobody cared what he had to say in the end he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment he was later acquitted and received 36 years in prison instead what yeah he was saying how do you quit that he was saying okay everyone is Shifting even in the criminal trials is crazy everyone is Shifting blame so he's Shifting the blame and saying yes I shouldn't have left the boat I shouldn't have given these orders But ultimately everybody died because the Coast Guard didn't rescue them the Coast Guard is saying everybody died ultimately because they were told to stay in their cabins so this is what they're doing I know this is what they're he looks so disgusted right now this is what they're doing wow like just for that I think he deserves another life sentence on top like just the audacity of these things so there were criminal charges levied against 399 people including the imprisonment of 154 people six survivors from tanan high school were subpoena for their testimony during the criminal proceedings and they said a fairy with about three 00 passengers most of them students is sinking fast but instead of staging full out rescue efforts the crew members are nowhere to be seen and the Coast Guard is just watching from afar 30 students lined up for the emergency exit the rescue teams didn't arrive so we started jumping into the water but eventually the water got too close and the emergency exit was no longer available to open we were waiting to jump we saw the Coast Guard within Arms Reach they were on the other side of that emergency exit and we were screaming at at them that were right here but they just watched parents were understandably infuriated with all of this with all these people and entities but there was still the problem of the missing bodies so by the summer of 2014 more rescue teams were sent in and um bodies at first there were more found and of course it was few and further in between but at one point a body was found in an area that the divers already claimed that they had searched multiple times so let's say they said they searched room B on the third floor they said I we searched that like 10 times and then a body was found by a rescue diver in room B on the third floor so of course it brings the question of Competency of the recovery efforts yet again another body was found a high school student in a bathroom that had allegedly already been searched 13 times according to official records so what the hell is going on here 13 times it showed that it was searched by the Coast Guard the distrust was only growing stronger and it's not just people the divers that are losing the trust of the parents but it's also the Coast Guard forensics teams so the way that they would do it is these Coast Guard divers would dive into each room of each level and they would collect a water sample they would bring this water sample up and then collect another water sample at the surface of the water they would then test these water samples and I guess there's certain bacteria or something in the water they're looking for that indicates there are human remains in that room but if it's a match to the surface water that means that there is no corpse in that area so they said they they checked it 13 times the bathroom water was tested two to three times and each time it showed that it was the same and consistent as the surface water a volunteer diver found the girl in the bathroom it is heavily implied that these Coast Guard divers were lazy and just collected two samples from the surface of the water and said one was from the bathroom down in the boat one was from the surface water oh there a match there's no body in there we're doing so well nothing I mean nothing is going right the authorities didn't get one thing right and the Dives were getting even more dangerous and there are actually a lot of more deaths that are associated with this that are not including like the 300 on board a Navy officer was injured and passed away an undyed Marine named Mr Lee passed away during a dive which I know that we talked badly about undy but that's the company not the employees problem he was actually diving when he just lost contact with everyone on Surface so his colleagues went in into the water he was found dead yeah his Air Supply cords were Tangled and he was unconscious without his diving equipment on it's not really clear what happened an X-ray of his chest showed no irregularities but a scan showed that his skull was filled with air now a few weeks later another civilian diver passed away July of 2014 a helicopter from Rescue operations crashed killing all five officers on board and injuring a high school student there was another death linked to the sinking that shocked a lot of people the vice principal of tanan high school vice principal King he was found hanging from a tree near chindo Island so this is the island where all the parents had gathered and it said that he was the leader of this school trip he was in charge of the kids safety he was rescued but over 250 of his students were not he wrote in his note that he feels guilty and he wants to take responsibility for what happened he wrote that the trip was his idea and he cannot live without knowing where his students are he wrote in the letter that he wonders if he could still be their teacher on the other side in death he asked his Ashes to be scattered around where the fairy went down now the sad part is before his death a lot of parents took their anger out on him and so did a lot of Korean news media Outlets like a lot of adults but when he passed students and survivors alike they went to his memorial in uniform and paid their respects and said he was an Ethics teacher so I wonder if it was really hard for him he was a good person and he really cared for students I don't think anyone should be blaming him again another instance where I feel like a child is sometimes more wise than an adult after the Memorial the hearse carrying his body circled around the school one last time he was survived by his wife and three children at at least three parents have taken their own lives after losing their children in this hward fery one of the fathers took his life on the one-year anniversary of this her fairy tragedy many families have completely disintegrated completely I mean divorc fallen into addictions financial distress one mom said you just have to cry when it's hard there's no way around it no one nothing nothing can console you or help you when I miss my son I go lie in his bed and I hug his pillows and I smell his smell and I cry many many families have left their children's room exactly the way it is not touching a single thing almost as if these students are going to walk in through their door with their backpack most families hate spring this is like April is like the best season in South Korea they hate it one victim's mom said her husband the victim's father has these intense nightmares and she said my husband constantly has nightmares kicking his leg even grabbing me by the collar and one night when I hugged him he just let out these screams and he cried like a baby he just looked so lonely many siblings of victims fell to self harm and depression one sister has her birthday on April 19th and for years it was too hard too painful for her to even celebrate and for the first time she asked her parents if they would like to join her for dinner for her birthday so it's been very rough for these families rescue Personnel but also the survivors survivors guilt is a scary scary thing I mean I think it's confusing like how do you even process that type of emotion there was a 71-year-old woman who was eating breakfast when she she heard screaming she saw people just sliding down the floor so she grabbed a railing and saw everyone tumble like dominoes she remembers going into shock but this young man grabbed her arm and screamed come on hold on to me tightly she was trying to let go and slide down with everyone cuz she was so exhausted she's 71 but she's like no no no I can't I can't hold on any longer she said she was exhausted but this young man never gave up on her and kept holding her arm he grabbed her and pulled her up he failed so he pulled her up again and this time it worked he escorted her to the rescue boats and she would not have made it out without him she wanted to ask for his name but it was so chaotic he was just gone her four friends she was traveling with for like this T trip her four friends died she suffered a broken back and she said you know I'm grateful I want to thank that young man I want to buy him a meal or at least hold his hand or give him a hug like what else can a lady like me do but how could it be that an old woman like me survives and all these young people are still in there it is such a shame civilians very early on realized that they were being lied to so they tried to show their support to the parents with yellow ribbons even while news outlets are still lying civilians tied yellow ribbons everywhere to show their support to show parents we know and we are supporting you since then yellow ribbons have been used to symbolize morning for this H fairy victims but it's almost now become synonymous with skepticism against the government and standing up to corruption a lot was exposed about high government officials when this case broke like how president Park was unavailable for up to 7 hours during the initial incident So Not only was she unavailable but her and her Administration falsified schedule records to show that she was on official duties at the time which she was not which even if you're on official duties I'm sorry your nation's children are dying on a boat get it together it can wait she just wasn't involved I guess nobody I don't know if she wasn't alerted or I don't know if she wasn't making enough calls so now all these officials are covering for her or her Administration is covering for her now president Park's Administration was also exposed for bullying and threatening reporters and news networks for reporting on the truth they even indicted a Japanese reporter who on her for handling this tragedy in the way that she did and Japan slammed South Korean prosecutors and the chief cabinet Secretary of Japan said freedom of press should be respected and that indictment was far out of the Norms of the accepted wisdom in the International Community so it's clear the president cares about her appearance domestically and oddly very much so internationally and that's it and when she decided she was sick of people calling her out for her vile disgusting Behavior she said this about this hair tragedy it's time to overcome the pains and hardship from this hir incident and move on to build a new South Korea we cannot stay trapped in the sadness and frustrations that have gripped us for the past year at this point bodies were still being recovered not everyone has been put to rest yet she was later impeached for corruption this is a big part of it her ratings Dro drastically after this and Shamanism oddly were the reasons that she was impeached we have a video on it but anyway not a great person in the end nine bodies were still missing in the incident and the parents stood by each other to make sure those victims came home to be laid to rest which would ultimately lead to this her being salvaged from the bottom of the seafloor but it took a very long time to get there the parents requested that this her fairy be salvaged immediately because evidence the bodies are intact like we need to do this right there are speculations that the government went out of their way to come up with a million reasons on why this was impossible it's theorized that they were scared that the evidence would show incompetence one big thing that got a lot of people mad was that out of 172 survivors more than half of them were rescued by fish boats and other civilians and or commercial boats that had nothing to do with the government One Survivor said I wonder why the rescuers Who first got to the ship didn't do anything about 100 or 200 I think were trapped inside they were just picking up the ones at the top now can we talk about the salvaging of the the fery real quick okay this is crazy 2 months I think it was like 2 months after the sinking of the fery seven private companies brought in proposals so this happens a lot with these sometimes natural disasters sometimes national disasters these private companies will bring in proposals and it was seven Maritime companies that said hey we have a way to salvage the fery this is how we're going to do it this is option A this is option b this is option C and this is how much we would charge the government to do it thank you that's our proposal it's almost like a government bid all these companies are trying to get this deal so that they can salvage the fery now one company in particular had a very unique plan the problem with salvaging this fairy was not oh let's just lifted up by cranes and then bring it ashore it's not like that it's so complicated because you have bodies in there you have evidence in there you want to keep these bodies as intact as possible so there's a lot that you're working with and it's in the channel the mango channel so there's a lot so their plan was to tilt the boat onto its side again cuz right now it was like inverted tilt it to its side cran it onto a floating vessel and Salvage it there that was like their plan the government re this proposal like 2 months after the sinking everyone says when are you going to salvage the boat they said we have to do test we have to find the perfect solution you guys you don't understand because you don't know but it's so hard you know this is in the water it's very very sensitive issue we need to make sure none of the evidence gets lost we need to make sure the bodies are intact so it's going to take some time we need to do a lot of tests a year later the government comes out and says after a year of that we have amazing news we have found the best solution they take credit for the solution that they had on their desks 2 months after the sinking and they pretty much copied that proposal word for word and that was exposed by new stopa parents of victims gathered together in front of government buildings to Stage a hunger strike not for money but for the truth they just wanted answers on how something like this could have happened for months the country mourned with them and there's a moving story about a father who ate nothing but water and salt for 46 days the president still had some supporters um super conservatives that came out to eat pizza and fried chicken in front of the parents who were Hunger striking I don't know why they defended the president like that's your mom or something I don't know why anyone defends any politician regardless of what their beliefs are so vehemently like I mean it's crazy one parent stated I don't need money compensation or trauma therapy I just need the truth please that's all and he formally bowed in front of lawmakers begging for them to help families of victims even shaved their heads in public in a demonstration they just wanted to put their family members to rest and the government just kept asking so you want compensation no we want you to find our family members finally the fer was salvaged 3 years later there were nine missing passengers at that point and only partial remains would be found in the salvaging many of the victims were put to rest a thousand days after the tragedy but by the end of October 2018 five people are still missing two 16-year-old students a 57-year-old teacher a 48-year-old father and the 7-year-old boy remember the older brother of the six-year-old sister they are still missing the families of all the victims would receive approximately 177,000 for each victim lost which is absolutely nothing I mean first of all they didn't even want it in the first place but it's absolutely nothing 71 days after the seare sinking survivors returned to school and before the tragedy the sophomore class of tanan had 325 students now there were 75 in that class all 75 were provided group therapy as part of the class time 10 counselors were brought in to be readily available and students at tanan said every student here knows someone who has died or has gone missing like just imagine the depth like the web of trauma Left Behind one student says our school feels so empty now it's not an environment where we can study I just I wake up every morning hoping it's a lie but it's not and I will say that when tragedy does strike Korea is a nation that at least the civilians come together the government wow but the civilians do come together in honor of this H tragedy all Kpop groups every single one stopped the release of all new music and promotions the whole entertainment industry was was at a standstill most Industries in South Korea were were at a standstill there were no ads no promotions for anything and once the morning period was over BTS came back with a song called Spring day directly inspired by sear the translated lyrics read I miss you even though I'm looking at your photo time is a cruel thing I want to go to the other side of the Earth holding your hand how long do I have to wait how many nights do I have to pass to see you to meet you until spring day comes again until the flowers bloom again please stay please stay here a little longer another K-pop artist dedicated his concert to a fan that was had purchased tickets to be there but she passed on this ha fairy shinyang j a four men finished and produced a song called You whom I love and the song was written by one of the teenagers that passed on this hair his name is eaun and he wanted to be an artist one day he plays the guitar he writes his own lyrics and his Idol his role model in life was shinyang J after this hero tragedy his parents reached out just not really expecting anything but he finished the song and performed it in honor of all the victims the lyrics translated are to you who has suffered so much you went through a lot right I want to hold you in my arms and right now I hope you're dreaming sweet dreams but we're Sleepless at night thinking of you I wish you could relax but but just know that I will always be here with you right next to you many artist and Idols wore yellow ribbons during performances to honor the victims but I will end the very long video with this a family member of one of the victims was asked you know why do you think this happened why do you think the kids weren't saved and he said people ask that all the time why do you think they failed to protect the children and I think above all they just had no desire to protect the children golden time all they did was Lie what are your thoughts on this case and please stay safe and I will see you guys on Sunday