South Korea ferry captain jailed for 36 years as search for bodies ends
Ju-min Park

Gwangju: -- A South Korean court on Tuesday found Lee Joon-seok, the captain of a ferry that capsized in April killing more than 300 passengers, guilty of negligence and sentenced him to 36 years in jail, but acquitted him of the homicide charge for which prosecutors had sought the death penalty.

The ship's chief engineer was found guilty of homicide for not aiding two injured fellow crew members and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

The overloaded ferry Sewol had capsized while making a turn on a routine voyage to the holiday island of Jeju.

Video footage of the crew abandoning the vessel after instructing the passengers, mostly teenagers, to remain in their cabins caused outrage across South Korea and calls for harsh punishment.

The court found all the remaining 13 surviving crew members guilty of various charges, including negligence, and handed down prison terms ranging from five to 20 years.

Anger and grief gripped the nation after its worst maritime disaster in decades, and President Park Geun-hye's government was heavily criticised for what was seen as a botched rescue operation.

Full story: http://www.theage.com.au/world/south-korea-ferry-captain-jailed-for-36-years-as-search-for-bodies-ends-20141111-11keey.html

-- The Age 2014-11-11

This coward should have been made to drown him self in a bath tub, just to give him a fraction

of the horrible feelings those young men and women had when they drowned...

This coward should have been made to drown him self in a bath tub, just to give him a fraction

of the horrible feelings those young men and women had when they drowned...

Tied down as it starts to fill, slowly.

But hey, I suppose they're not in G-Mo.

Life sentence anyway, and I bet that South Korean prisons are run harshly.

just throw them over the border to North Korea