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Sunday, April 27, 2014

South Korean PM resigns over government response to ferry disaster [Now, think of Hun Xen's Kingdoom and the Koh Pich stampede]


South Korean PM resigns over government response to ferry disaster 

[Still no justice or accountability from The Kingdoom's Hun Xen -- Stampede in Cambodia Leaves Hundreds Dead]

Reuters / Yahoo News | 27 April 2014

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announced his resignation on Sunday over the government response to the ferry disaster, in which it was first announced that everyone had been rescued, focusing attention on poor regulatory controls.

The Sewol ferry sank on a routine trip south from the port of Incheon to the traditional holiday island of Jeju on April 16.

More than 300 people, most of them students and teachers on a field trip from the Danwon High School on the outskirts of Seoul, have died or are missing and presumed dead.

The children on board the Sewol were told to stay put in their cabins, where they waited for further orders. The confirmed death toll on Sunday was 187.

South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest economy and one of its leading manufacturing and export powerhouses, has developed into one of the world's most technically advanced countries, but faces criticism that regulatory controls have not kept pace.

As part of the investigation, prosecutors raided two shipping safety watchdogs and a coastguard office. They have also raided two vessel service centers, which act as maritime traffic control.

Chung's resignation has to be approved by President Park Geun-hye, who has the most power in government.

"Keeping my post too great a burden on the administration," a somber Chung said in a brief announcement. "...On behalf of the government, I apologize for many problems from the prevention of the accident to the early handling of the disaster.

"There are too many irregularities and malpractices in parts of society that have been with us too long and I hope those are corrected so that accidents like this will not happen again."

Chung was booed and someone threw a water bottle at him when he visited grieving parents the day after the disaster. President Park was also booed by some relatives when she visited a gym where families of the missing were staying.

Tempers have frayed over the slow pace of the recovery and frequent changes in information provided by the government.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education sent text messages to parents that "All Danwon High School students are rescued" in the hours after the disaster, media reported.


4 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:37 PM

    That is so sad. :( ♥♥♥

    But don't expect the uneducated tyrant people like Hun Sen to be civilized like educated people.

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  2. Anonymous2:09 PM

    The devils will not leave, only God can makd them leave.

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  3. Anonymous10:42 PM

    Hun Xen is the lowest class below the lowest. Hun Xen is not just the lowest class kind of person, he is a vulture who has tried to look like a peacock. That's why he has received multiple papers said PhDs from the land of vultures, the Khmer Rouge creators. This animal Hun Xen does not have a little dignity nor he knows how to rationalize. Stepping down for the sake of the nation is out of question. How many times he lost the elections still he refused to lose? Go figure. True only GOD that can defeat SATAN/Evil, because animal Hun Xen has his master Yuon Hanoi, so the Lord is the only can defeat all in the cosmos. Why should the mighty One save Khmer people who are wirshiping Idols? If read on Prophet Jeremiah in the Bible, then we will know why Judah was given into the hands of Babylonian King.

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  4. Anonymous2:38 AM

    Ah Qvack Hun Cent loves power. Don't dream to get rid of him. If he lost power, his own life, and all the life of his family members will be tortured to death in the gas chambers by the people. He knew the whole country hate him.
    Khmer Buddhists cannot get rid of him, because they don't have True GOD with them, they worship Idols.

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