Waiting for the Right Time
By Kim Ji-soo Staff Reporter Sometimes, when the time is right, things that we thought would never arrive finally do. After an unusually cold winter ― the remnants of which we are still feeling ― the harbingers of spring are here. In the South, cherry blossoms are in full bloom in Jinhae. In Seoul, snippets of forsythia delicately mix in with brown barren trees along the rugged hills here and there. It's a bit early and difficult however to rejoice in these changes. The sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan on March 26 has greatly saddened the nation. Of the total 104 crew members, 58 were rescued in the wake of the initial hours. Nam Ki-hoon, senior chief petty officer of the frigate Cheonan, was found dead on April 3. There are 45 still missing. Lives have been lost in the rescue process while the remnants of the ship remains under the sea. In the past two weeks or so, there have been so many revisions of statements regarding the time that the ship went down, to why the Cheonan was traversing in that route in the West Sea and to what might have been the cause of the acci