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Our top story; a massive operation to raise the sunken Sewol-ho.
The ferry sank in 2014, and was recorded as one of the worst maritime disasters in Korea’s history, taking over 3-hundred lives, mostly high school students.
Shin Se-min starts us off with details on the procedure

It’s the first time the Sewol-ho Ferry has been seen above the surface of the sea since it sunk in the waters around Jindo Island almost three years ago.
The 145-meter long, over 68-hundred ton ferry emerged from the dark seawater with its surface rusty and scratched.
Given the size of the vessel it’s a monumental task, and at the same time,… an expensive one too.
The Korean government agreed two years ago to a deal worth some 76 billion U.S. dollars with a consortium led by China’s state-run company Shanghai Salvage to raise the ferry.
And the operation conducted both by Korea’s oceans ministry and Shanghai Salvage is being carried out in a careful manner, as there are still nine victims missing and their bodies could still be inside the vessel.

The reason why the engineers are taking the vessel out of the water *without cutting it into pieces, and have also cast a net around the ferry, is to help recover the bodies, believed to still be trapped inside.
The marathon operation of lifting the sunken ferry above the water began with raising the ship 13 meters out of the water and placing the ferry onto a semi-submersible ship for transport.
The sunken ferry will now be transported to Mokpo New Port, just 87 kilometers away from the disaster site.
The transport is expected to take at least 8-days, depending on weather conditions.
If all goes as planned, the recovered ship will be placed at Mokpo port and searched for the missing nine bodies as well as answers to what exactly caused this manmade disaster.

“Three years of planning the recovery operation come down to 12 or 13 days of execution. And after that… it’ll be time to start recovering the truth.
Shin Se-min, Arirang News, Jindo.

A briefing session by Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries is being held. We’ll have more from that event on our later newscast.

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