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The 10th Anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster
꽃이 진다고 그대를 잊은 적 없다_세월호 10주기
On April 16, 2014, the Sewol ferry sank off on its way to Jeju Island, South Korea.
The news shocked the whole nation. Initially, the media reported that all the passengers on board had been rescued. But it soon turned out to be false.
Of the 476 people on board, 304 were killed. Most of the victims were high school students on a school trip to Jeju. They were told to stay in their ship cabins for rescue. They followed orders, but eventually, the ship sank with them trapped inside.
Meanwhile, the captain and some crew members were evacuated while the ship was sinking.
This catastrophic tragedy has sparked widespread social and political upheaval in South Korea.
Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the Sewol Ferry disaster. Rest in peace to all those who lost their lives in the disaster.
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#sewol ferry#south korea#sewol ferry disaster#never forget 0416#20140416#April 16#세월호#세월호참사#10주기#sewol#sewol ferry tragedy#remember0416
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just reminding everyone that the sewol ferry tragedy had practically no help saving all those students lives
and you’re trying to save billionaires in a time capsule size tube that did this upon themselves
the amount of effort makes me laugh. humanity makes me laugh.
tiny violin for you. that’s all.
#my heart will go on#give me a break#titanic#we all live in a yellow submarine#sewol ferry#i beg your unbelievable pardon#humanity#ocean gate
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Birthday (2019)
생일 (Birthday, 2019)
written and directed by Lee Jong-un
#movie#cinema#korean movie#asian cinema#korean cinema#생일#birthday#kim doyeon#sol kyung gu#kim bomin#yoon chan young#lee jong un#sewol ferry
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Like forsythias that always bloom when spring comes.
The 10th spring.
We're always here.
#Original#Pic#Art#Digital Art#Digital Drawing#Remember 0416#Pray For Korea#Forget Me Not#Sewol Ferry#Sewol Ferry Tragedy#Yellow Ribbon
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Was Korean culture to blame for the Sewol tragedy? This was the shamefully racist question U.S. news organizations asked nine years ago, blaming the teenage victims for not defying their captain.
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#OnThisDay #OTD 15 April 1912
marks the 111th anniversary of the sinking of the #Titanic, which killed about 1,500 of the 2,240 passengers and crew on board. April 16, 2014 is the 9th anniversary of the sinking of #SouthKoreaFerry #Sewol. Out of 476 passengers and crew, 306 died. 250 were high school students from Danwon High School (Ansan City).
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What kind of captain just abandons their ship and crew during an accident?!
Cowardly behaviour!
For fuck’s sake!
#dougie rambles#personal stuff#shipping#ships#maritime transport#sea travel#ferries#MV sewol#costa concordia#sewol ferry incident#vent post#fucking hell#fuck’s sake
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2014년 4월 16일
어른이 된 후 가장 부끄럽고 죄스럽던 날.
너무도 어린 목숨들이 물속으로 사라지는 걸
뉴스를 보면서 실시간으로 목도했던 날.
지금도 믿고 싶지 않은 그 날의 비극.
10년이 지나는 동안
그 참담함과 고통이 불쑥불쑥 가슴을 뚫고 나왔다.
사무치는 미안함에 고개를 들 수 없는 날들이 있었다.
그리하여
슬픔은 오래 지속된다.
illus.(1)
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Today is the 10 year anniversary of the Sewolho Tragedy (세월호). 10 years since the day I have so many thoughts still, and the grief and anger that bubbles up but... there is one thing that I cannot forget and that still causes me incredible amounts of anger.
In the aftermath, it became clear that there were multiple fuckups on multiple levels by the government in the rescue operations as well as the accident happening itself.
Grieving parents began hunger strikes.
And somehow... somehow the grief over their dead children became a political issue, not a humanitarian one.
A group of conservatives called the ilbe, took it upon themselves to demonstrate some of the worst hatefulness I've seen from people.
TW below for hate against grieving parents.
During the hunger strikes, they ate in front of the parents.
If that wasn't bad enough, they specifically ate fish cakes.
Why fish cakes?
The ilbe "joked" that fish ate the dead schoolchildren and that now they were a part of these fish cakes.
And it never stopped.
Ilbe members continue to harass parents who (rightfully) continue their activism to this day.
Most people outside of Korea don't know or remember this. What they remember is only the beauty of Korean people, protesting in the millions and successfully impeaching President Park Geun Hye who was missing for 7 crucial hours after the accident. ("Fun" fact? A lot of 4B movement activists regard her as their role model. Yes. Still. In 2019, feminist group WOMAD even took out an ad in Times Square to demand her release from prison.)
The fish cake incident was why I wasn't shocked when I saw various videos online of Zionists doing or saying similarly hateful things about Falasteen and Palestinians.
To take a humanitarian issue and twist it into a political one.
I have a lot of feels when people praise the efficiency and technological "forwardness" of Korea when I think of the Sewolho. Because it wasn't the first or last tragedy created by corruption and greed - it is one of MANY manmade disasters (Seongsu bridge collapse, Sampoong Mall collapse, Daegu subway fire, Itaewon Halloween crush, etc etc).
Korea is always one misstep away from yet another infrastructure disaster.
It is a complex country, like any other. There's no conclusion to this post because I struggle with complicated feelings regarding my home country and my own family but I wish people acknowledged the nuances more than look at it with rose colored glasses.
#south korea#sewol ferry disaster#세월호참사#4b movement#korean feminism#Korean history#korean government#tw hate speech
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literally everytime i see something abt the challenger explosion i start crying and like. yes its a very very very sad event but i dont understand why i cry over it EVERY time. like not just sniffles i mean like straight up i was sobbing at the cafe this morning bc a channel uploaded a video abt it.
#like this doesnt happen with most other events. it happens when i look super far into tragedies yk bc theyre very sad but i cant think of#any other tragedies where if i like. even hearing them mentioned i start to get rly upset. Aside from the sewol ferry but thats more#Absolute rage mixed in with the sadness yk. idk literally writing this post ive started crying bc i thought abt the challenger too hard#i legit know all there is to know abt it like. its not like its shocking anymore im so acutely aware of it and Yet.#idk. i think its a normal reaction 2 have bc again Incredibly sad thing 2 happen but i dont understand why its only this. yk.
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I just went from watching Funny BTS moments to silently sobbing and researching the Sewol Ferry Tragedy in less than a day. I will never listen to Spring Day the same way after this.
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9th Spring.
Come along with us. Let’s do it together. You’re not alone.
#Original#Pic#Art#Digital Art#Digital Drawing#Remember 0416#Pray For Korea#Forget Me Not#Sewol Ferry#Sewol Ferry Tragedy#Yellow Ribbon
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Can we talk about this lady because what the actual fuck?
https://twitter.com/GoldmanEleanor/status/1744081081236607238?t=GJukb3NkNw7sH4EdoFm-DA&s=19
It's not a satire account, just your average IOF-terrorism supporting Zionist crying antisemitism because other parents at her have the audacity to want a ceasefire. The replies from her fellow Zionists are horrific. They have absolutely no shame or morals.
I didn't know who this was, but even after just scrolling through a dozen of her posts I can't believe how shameless zionists are... my jaw kept dropping the more I read... from Islamophobia, racism, and sheer cognitive dissonance -it's just despicable. And some of these posts have thousands of likes. And the fact that she referred to Palestinian people as the THE terrorists -and is spreading tons of misinformation... and, as you said, the fact that she's getting upset over demands of a ceasefire -you have to literally be a monster incarnate to think wanting to stop a genocide is bad thing...
Also, for folks who don't know (considering this is her display picture -it's definitely relevant to talk about here as well). I just found out about this today -the yellow ribbon was appropriated to show 'solidarity to Israeli hostages' -some celebrities at the Golden Globes were given pins to wear and they did. I don't know if this was her way of aligning with IOF propaganda, but I think it's important to mention.
The yellow ribbon represents/has became symbolic of many things -bringing awareness to childhood cancers, as well as childhood/youth-related mortality issues and diseases and tragedies, such as it becoming a remembrance symbol for those who were killed during the Sewol ferry tragedy in South Korea back in 2014.
Zionists getting upset over a watermelon emoji, to colonizing a Palestinian slogan for THEIR use, and now they're trying to pollute and take away the meaning behind the yellow ribbon... it's disgusting.
I don't know who you are Eleanor, but indoctrinated zionists like you prove to be the most dangerous in proliferating and normalizing your racist and Islamophobic rhetoric.
#feminist#feminism#social justice#free palestine#palestine#freepalastine🇵🇸#free gaza#settler violence#settler colonialism#tw islamophobia#islamophobia#yellow ribbon#end the occupation#ceasefire now#current events#current news#gaza strip#gaza#us imperialism#western imperialism
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Ship suggestion: Ferry Sewol
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Teen Vogue Excerpt – Why Queer Characters in LGBTQ Movies and BL Dramas Find Solace at the Beach
BY K-CI WILLIAMS JUNE 29, 2023
The Eighth Sense, a BL drama from South Korea, lives and dies by the beach. Oh Jun-taek plays Jihyun, a college student from a small town who struggles to acclimatize to metropolitan Seoul. When Jihyun joins the surfing club, he bonds with his senior, Jaewon, played by Im Ji-sub. As they fall in love, the beach becomes their spot for sleeping under the stars and even kissing in the ocean. “The beach is kind of like a tool that connects us,” Ji-sub tells Teen Vogue over Zoom, in his native Korean. Jun-taek adds that the “beach is very wide but Jihyun has been living in a world that has been very small,” and although “the ocean itself is very cold, the ocean was actually very warm for Jihyun.” It’s a site of transformation for them both, just as water metamorphoses between its forms.
Ji-sub names the beach as a “special spot” for Jaewon, “where he can relax and heal mentally as well.” Jaewon’s younger brother tragically passed away a number of years before we meet him in the series, and the trauma still sits with him. “I didn't realize how broad a range of emotions can be felt when you love someone until I played the character Jaewon, because it's something that I personally didn't experience,” Ji-sub says. Jaewon welcomes Jihyun into his place of significance, illuminating his dark spaces and ultimately bringing the pair together.
Jun-taek alludes to the title of the series, recalling our senses as human beings. Interoception, often called the eighth sense, is the brain’s perception of the body’s state, thanks to signals transmitted from our internal organs. Understanding these signals can help us regulate our physical and emotional state, though at the same time, trauma can inhibit those pathways. “The beach kiss scene was the sequence [in which] someone with pain and bad memories, PTSD in the past, turns into love and being healed by Jihyun,” Jun-taek says. “Although you have bad memories or trauma…you can be healed. Do not remain, do not stay with the pain.”
Inu Baek, one half of The Eighth Sense’s writer/director duo, attributes the beach to a specific cultural symbolism. He refers to the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s 2015 advice for South Korea to adopt comprehensive protections for all citizens, which would prohibit discrimination against the queer community. “We have not been able to enact the anti-discrimination law in Korea yet,” Inu tells Teen Vogue. He wanted to “give the Korean audience a message because Korea has experienced lots of disasters in the ocean” that are still ever-present traumas for citizens, such as the Sewol ferry tragedy — the show even pays tribute to those lost with a covertly placed yellow ribbon. “The beach symbolizes the hope of the harmony of this country,” Inu says.
A still from The Eighth Sense. COURTESY OF THE EIGHTH SENSE
The show’s other writer/director is Werner du Plessis, who offers the beach as a representation of “the ebb and flow of relationships, the way that they move, the way that they’re never consistent,” but also a “space that is simultaneously peaceful, while being extremely dangerous, like the ocean is such an unknown.” And also, quicksand exists. Intrinsic to our genesis as queer people is navigating identity, from day dot. As the intersection of two worlds, toeing the line between who society expects us to be and who we truly are inside, the beach is “such a beautiful metaphor for queer people,” Werner says, “because it’s exactly the way that we’re designed.”
#the eighth sense#the 8th sense#t8s#t8s articles#lim jisub#oh juntaek#inu baek#werner du plessis#t8s meta#kbl#korean bl#mentioned alongside portrait of a lady on fire??#i am unwell
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