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Seoul Mayor sheds tears over Sewol victim
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By Ko Dong-hwan
By Ko Dong-hwan
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Wednesday night made a surprise visit to the facility in Jindo, South Jeolla Province, where family members are waiting for divers to recover the bodies from the Sewol ferry that sunk in April.
Park, who arrived at the gymnasium near 9 p.m., met and offered his condolences to the people there. He got particularly emotionally when visiting the family of one victim _ a Danwon High School student who had been an enthusiastic fan of the Seoul-based baseball club Doosan Bears, whose body divers have yet to recover.
Park sobbed as he talked with the student’s parents, who explained to Park their son’s unique love for baseball. The parents had hung their favorite Bears jersey, signed by the players, on a pole in the gymnasium.
Park stayed in the gym for about an hour and then went to Paengmok Port to observe the search operations before returning to Seoul.
Park is seeking to be reelected as mayor with Chung Mong-joon of President Park Geun-hye’s Saenuri Party pitted as his main rival.