South Korea remembers deadly Sewol ferry accident 10 years on

Families still seek change decade after hundreds perished in disaster-prone nation

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Maritime police search for missing passengers from the Sewol ferry off the country's southern coast on April 16, 2014. © Reuters

STEVEN BOROWIEC, Nikkei staff writer

SEOUL -- Kim Jong-ki is imagining what kind of adult his youngest daughter could have become.

Named Sujin, she was the third and last of his children, and he remembers her as pretty and bright. She was one of the roughly 300 who died when the Sewol ferry sank 10 years ago on Tuesday, in one of South Korea's worst peacetime disasters.

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