The Sewol Ferry Disaster

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In 2014 a ferry carrying hundreds of South Korean high school students on a field trip sunk, killing almost everyone on board. Hauntingly, their deaths were fully avoidable: everyone from the dock inspector to the Coast Guard to the president failed them.

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0:45.9	I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too.
0:48.0	And this is Stuff You Should Know, part of our ongoing marine disaster suite, I guess.
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