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What Went Wrong in the South Korean Ferry Disaster? | The New Yorker

Name: What Went Wrong in the South Korean Ferry Disaster? | The New Yorker
Description: A New Yorker short documentary about the 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry in South Korea, based on the film In the Absence. It examines the failures in the rescue and the political aftermath.

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HN mostly cites it as an example of institutional failure and deference to hierarchy during a disaster.

A New Yorker short documentary about the 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry in South Korea, based on the film In the Absence. It examines the failures in the rescue and the political aftermath.

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@aaron695 Jul 2020 Recommends

on HN thread The Eastland disaster killed more passengers than the Titanic and the Lusitania

If you're interested in light retrospectives this is ok for a modern day ferry disaster - What Went Wrong in the South Korean Ferry Disaster? (28 mins) [this video] The MS Estonia also has doco's on Youtube

Light retrospective on a modern ferry disaster

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@rasz Feb 2020 Cites it

on HN thread New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan

This somehow resembles both Fukushima and Korean Sewol disaster 'recovery efforts', [this video] . Social norms (face, status) above common sense.

Example of social norms trumping common sense in disasters

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@sho_hn Jun 2023 Cites it

on HN thread Debris field found in search for missing submersible

[link] [this video] A friend of mine was involved with computer forensics on recovered cellphones on this one. Just awful.

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@rasz Jul 2024 Cites it

on HN thread Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking

> There's even a case where this resulted in an air disaster Lets not forget Sewol disaster 'recovery efforts' [this video] [link] where no rescue was even attempted before letting President decide (establishing video feed to command center).

Cites Sewol failure where no rescue was attempted pending a decision

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