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Civic group holds memorial service for victims of 2014 deadly sinking

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  • Published Apr 16, 2023 4:15 pm KST
  • Updated Apr 16, 2023 4:15 pm KST

A civic group holds a memorial service for the victims of the 2014 Sewol ferry sinking at a port in Mokpo, 410 kilometers south of Seoul, April 16. Yonhap

A civic group held a memorial service Sunday for the victims of a ferry sinking in 2014 that killed more than 300 people in one of Korea's worst maritime disasters.

The memorial service drew around 100 people at a port in Mokpo, 410 kilometers southwest of Seoul, where the rusted wreck of the Sewol ferry was placed.

The 6,800-ton vessel sank on April 16, 2014, in waters off the country's southwest coast, killing 304 people, mostly high school students on a trip to the southern resort island of Jeju. (Yonhap)