New | South Korean ferry survivors return to school vowing to remember lost friends
Two months after Sewol ferry sank and killed more than 300 passengers, surviving children brought to school in five buses under police escort.
Holding hands as they walked through the school gates, some fighting back tears, 75 children who survived South Korea’s worst maritime disaster in 20 years, returned to class on Wednesday vowing to remember their lost friends.
Wailing parents of the 250 children who did not survive, when a ferry taking them on a school trip capsized and sank, greeted the children outside the Danwon high school.
Some grieving parents held signs, one of which read: “We love you.”
“Grown-ups are constantly telling us to forget and cheer up,” an 18-year-old boy who spoke for the survivors said, fighting back tears. “But we will remember and recollect our friends. Because not forgetting them is what we can do at best. Just as we will remember them, please don’t forget them.”
Two months after the Sewol ferry sank and killed more than 300 passengers, the surviving children were brought to school in five buses under a police escort.
Many were wearing bracelets engraved with the message, “Remember 0416,” and all were accompanied by their parents.
