Of all the tragedies, wars, natural disasters and terrorist attacks we’ve reported on over the years, the one that even now, as I think of it, makes my knees go weak is the sinking of the Sewol ferry in South Korea. More than 300 people died that day in 2014, and most of them were high school students. If you recall, the students took cellphone videos, first laughing as the ship listed to one side and then panicking as they realized they were going to die. “This looks like the end,” one boy shouted into a smartphone, before another cut in: “Mom, Dad, I love you.”Maybe it’s because I am a parent, but I can’t seem to shake it off. Today, we are revisiting the Sewol disaster as part of our new series, Promises Made.

Source: International New York Times June 10, 2019 09:00 UTC