9th Anniversary The Sewol Ferry Tragedy🎗Remember 16th April 2014💔*Read Destination*
On 16 April 2014, the Sewol ferry sank near the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula, as the entire nation watched on a live broadcast. The ferry MV Sewol sank on the morning of April 16th, en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. The 6,825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 2.7 kilometres north of Byeongpungdo at 08:58 KST. While the ship was quickly flooded and sinking deeper into the water, the Marine Police tragically failed to rescue the passengers onboard.The government initially told the nation that all the passengers had been rescued. Of the 476 people on board the Sewol, only 172 were rescued. A detailed report by The Diplomat sheds more light on the tragedy. According to this report, there were 476 passengers on board, out of which 250 of them were second-year high school students on their school trip. Things began to take a scary turn as the ferry began sinking. The captain was the first to escape the ferry. The remaining passengers were told that help was on the way. Passengers struggled to stay afloat in rising water levels due to the sinking ships. By the end, 304 passengers died. Authorities could not recover five bodies. This tragedy was seen as incompetence on the part of the government and media. The report stated that media outlets informed the nation that all passengers were rescued when this was not the case.
There are huge similarities between the All of Us Are Dead Kdrama and this real-life tragedy. The first similarity was that high-school students were involved. All of Us Are Dead portrays a zombie-apocalypse situation that originated from Hyosan High School. Whereas close to half the ferry passengers were from Danwon High School.
The second similarity was how the students in All of Us Are Dead made a video during the zombie outbreak. Interestingly, the students onboard the ferry also made a video as they waited for rescuers.
The third similarity that the two shared is a love story. In the drama, love bloomed between characters Choi Nam-ra and Lee Su Hyeok. There was a scene where Lee Su Hyeok tied his hands to Choi Nam-ra's. This was revealed that on the ferry, two high-school students, Kim Su-jin and Lee Jeong-jin, were found with their bodies tied together with their life-jacket cord. They were later revealed to be a couple.
The final similarity was how the living paid homage to the dead. In the drama, the people who survived paid respect to the dead through a ribbon memorial. Similarly, the living paid their respects to the ferry victims through a yellow ribbon memorial. Yellow ribbons became a symbol of recognizing the lives lost.
Some musicians expressed their opinion and thoughts about this incident with their music. For many, music has been one way to talk about societal pressures which, on the other hand, also hopes to offer people some calm in the storm that arises every year on April 16.
1)'Spring Day' by BTS
2)'Yellow Ocean' by Cheetah and Jang Sung Hwan
3)'There Must Be' by Joo Hyo and HA:TFELT
4)'Always Remember' by the late singer, TANY
5)'River' by Kim Yoon Ah
6)'One of these Nights' by Red Velvet
7)'Red Light' by f(x)
8)'Still There, Still Here' by Lucid Fall