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Profits Over People: The Sewol Ferry Disaster | Corporate Casket

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4961 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Go to http://dailyharvest.com/casket to get up to $40 off your first box! Go to http://blueland.com/casket to get 20% off your first order. Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Ad Music Credits: Tango de Manzana by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4460-tango-de-manzana License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Backbay Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3408-backbay-lounge License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In April 2014, South Korea suffered a horrific tragedy when the Sewell Ferry sunk, leading to the death of over 300 people, most of which were high school children.

0:10.0

In the days and months that followed, it was discovered that greed and corruption

0:14.3

within the company that owned the ship and government officials were to blame for this

0:18.2

disaster. The company focused on profits had added additions to the ship affecting its ability to steer safely,

0:25.0

overloaded it, and repeatedly bribed officials to look the other way.

0:29.0

Their greed left a nation in mourning and hundreds of people in insurmountable grief

0:34.4

after the loss of their loved ones, many of them being children.

0:37.6

Desperation and anger.

0:40.0

At Jindo Stadium, hundreds of relatives,

0:42.0

years on the Capitol.

0:43.2

He has shouting out as a meet with Sass Korea's president and learned the horrifying details

0:48.9

of how the disaster...

0:50.5

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the corporate casket. I'm the

0:55.0

aluminati and today we're going to be talking about the seawall ferry disaster.

0:58.4

Due to the nature of the event we're going to be discussing today this episode

1:01.9

discusses death and dying

1:03.4

multiple times throughout. If this is something you're not in the head space for I

1:07.0

highly suggest skipping this episode. Also as an aside the quote is used from

1:10.8

others in this episode have been translated from Korean to English

1:13.8

so they may not be exact translations but we tried our best.

1:17.4

With that being said, let's get into it. The Seawl Ferry sank in April 2014, but unfortunately the sinking of the seawall is not even the first tragedy in South Korean waters due to overloading.

1:33.3

On December 15th, 1970, a ferry named Nam Young

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