Sinking of Sae Wol Ho and the saddest thing in my life.
I have lived 57 years. For that period I have seen and looked so many strange things.
Actually life is the continuation of the difficulty of understanding in my guess.
I had been hardly frightened about something, because I had experienced so many abnormal things in my life.
But there was one accident what made me all but crazy.
It was the sinking of Sea Wol Ho ship in south sea of Korea.
It was 16 April 2014 when Sae Wol was sinking that was broadcasted in TV vividly.
As a result of that accident, 304 people were dead. Victims were mainly high school pupils and teachers and temporary crew members.
I could not forget that scene of sinking, it was sinking slowly in TV.
Captain was escaped from the ship at first, almost of crews were successfully escaped except few temporary crew members.
From that day, I hardly have slept at night. I had been shedding tears unintentionally.
Even at this moment, I could not control my emotion.
What made us worse was the attitude of the former president Park Guen Hye.
It seemed that she didn’t care about the accident with heart.
At the very moment of the accident, I felt the former Park really didn’t feel sorry for the loss of the parents and people. It was just a bothersome accident for her to pass over asap.
In my guess, the expel of the former president Park was mainly originated from that accident.
Of course there were the continuation of unprecedented behavior relating to her patron.
For some days ago, I had dropped the city Mock Po. This visit was for looking at Sae Wol Ho. The ship Sae Wol Ho was moved from the island Jindo where the ship was sunk to the port of Mockpo.
I arrived at port Mock Po early in the morning. The Sea Wind was blowing strongly. There was few people to visit this place. The yellow ribbons were flying with the wind. People have wrote their wishes on the ribbon and tied that to the wire entanglements.
There was a full of the waves of yellow ribbons. It was a wall of yellow ribbons.
It was very sorry that I could not get closer to the ship. I could see the ship far away.
There were the photos of 304 victims who could had been saved, if government and officials did their job properly.
I had prayed for the victims in front of the ship.
Tears came out unintentionally.
But with this visit, I felt like that I cleared the debt of my mind. å
또 눈물이 나네요
잊지 않겠습니다.
Death by drowning is horrific, but worse than the fact of death is the realization that much of the tragedy could have been averted and lives saved.
The injustice is hard to bear mainly because it is stained with the sense of futility and waste which is one of the abiding elements of tragedy.
It's hard to say what kinds of events strike us deeply and profoundly move us, but the kinds of things we mourn define us as persons.
Some people grieve over trivialities - as Faulkner says, their griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars.
But you care very deeply not only about causes but about people, @slowwalker.
Your post today makes me admire you for your compassion and humanity.
Being sensitive is a gift of God - it cannot be manufactured - it springs from a heart that is vulnerable and tender, and whatever it is is that makes people caring, you have that, my friend.
Have a good day, @slowwalker.
Well said John, as always by you.
Politicians do not care, like our friend here stated. We know this.
@slowwalker has a big heart, I just love his writing and posts.
Have a good week ahead John.
thank you, Barry - Hope your week goes well too :)
Thank you John and Barry for your comments.
It is too much good words for me, I believe most of Koreans have the same sentiment to me, if they saw the ship sinking. I don't think my feeling is special, it would be normal.
But I am still curious for why the politicians including the former president didn't show same sentiment with ordinary people.
Have a nice week, John and Barry
thanks, @slowwalker -I agree - it is a mystery why she didn't exhibit some grief
That was a really sad incident. It was made worse by sheer incompetence by people of authority. It was also very shameful that some of the crew members saved themselves before they attempted to save the children on board.
It is important for us to learn from these incidents. We may have suffered a terrible loss but we should not lose the lesson. It should not be repeated - ever again.
Hopefully the government learns from this lesson and prevents this from happening again.
Yes, I agree with you
Photos are totally amazing! :D
I have to agree!!!! Peace be with us all!!!
may peace be with all of us
Words cannot describe the trauma you have been experiencing for sure. However, I wholeheartedly wish you find piece and can sleep safely soon.
About the former president, Sure she deserves bad end for so many reasons. But I don’t think, her bad end caused by her bad deeds (why?!) Simply because “Life is NOT Fair !”. Many bad people live long happy healthy rich life , and many good people have sad sick poor life. There is NO dependency on good or bad given deeds, but depends on OUR CHOICE . Many evil people justify their bad deeds to themselves so they sleep safely !
I know you can never FORGET, but you can FORGIVE the unfairness of life ( and what happens to you) .. it’s “your choice“ to live in resentment ( which still there even if u felt temporarily happy about something bad happened to your enemy/ or former president) ... if you not forgive, you will keep suffering !
Do YOURSELF A FAVOUR —> FORGIVE !
Yes, forgive is a simple prescription, but it is the one of the most difficult thing to do.
But with this visit, I could ease my resentment
Your are right ! @slawwalker
But i tried to look at the problem from a different angle. ( forgive Vs. forget) (forgive life unfairness not a certain person or a direct reason for the catastrophe) . You can use your own different view angles too. Like you are luckier than most others ( who died) and are not able to enjoy reading these lines or expressing their feelings in writing, or making friends, or having new plans and hopes in life .. like what YOU are doing now.
You maybe a slawwaker .. but still enjoying seroundings that fastwaker cannot notice or stop by to enjoy
You are much privileged than Many others , believe me!
All the best and peace be with you.
With true friendly Love 💕
John
@josteem
this pictures are really good!
I saw a documentary about this, really sad.
The sinking of the ship events made all the loving people of the world sad. we hope it never happen again, and pray all the victims rest in peace!
Nice photo!
really sad