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Raging helplessness of Sewol By Jason Lim My social media page was covered with remembrances and self-condolences about the Sewol tragedy that happened seven years ago this week. I am sure that I am not an exception. Sewol occupies an outsized place in recent Korean history. It s only a slight exaggeration that the spectacular downfall of President Park Geun-hye s administration began with the sinking of the Sewol ferry and the recriminations following the government s botched and opaque response to the sinking. Who can forget the questions about the seven hours that Park was absent in the immediate aftermath? What is it about Sewol that has such a hold on the Korean psyche? It s not that Korea hasn t had its share of tragedies. The Sampoong Department Store collapse and Seongsu Bridge collapse in the mid-nineties were arguably more shocking and killed more people. In fact, the first half of the whole twentieth century that started with the Japanese subjugation and ended with t

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