Following their recent ordeal in the ferry, about 75 children who survived South Korea’s worst maritime disaster in 20 years, returned to class on Wednesday vowing to remember their lost friends.
Wailing parents of the 250 children, who did not survive, when a ferry taking them on a school trip capsized and sank, greeted the children outside the Danwon Highschool.
Two months after the Sewol ferry sank and killed more than 300 passengers, the surviving children were brought to school in five buses under a police escort.
Many were wearing bracelets engraved with the message, “Remember 0416,” and all were accompanied by their parents.
On April 16, the Sewol ferry sharply listed and capsized on a routine overnight journey from Incheon, the port city one hour drive from the children’s hometown, to the vacation island of Jeju, overloaded with cargo and sailing too fast on a turn.