Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The seas were running quite high when I took a small ferry from Mokpo, a port city on South Korea’s southwestern coast, to the idyllic island of Jeju a month before the tragedy of the ferry boat that sank with 476 people on board, most of them students […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com JINDO — A mother and her sister burst into hysterics, leaping up from the mat on which they had been resting on the floor of the gymnasium where hundreds were waiting for news of loved ones trapped aboard the sunken ferry boat. The two had just seen a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com JEJU – Schoolchildren here sing a mournful song about a gigantic rock about 90 miles southwest of the island where the souls of fishermen lost at sea find their final repose. The rock cannot really be called an outcropping since it’s actually submerged several meters, but South Korea […]