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I still feel the SK president needs to step down from the position. Words are just words and they can do only so much for grieving families.

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Regretful? What a rather interesting choice of words for this extremely sad situation....

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She's incompetent ! She can't manage and react fast. She doesn't know how to use her power and capabilities! Now you can only say is that you are sorry? BOOOOOO!!!!

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South Korean President Park Geun-Hye apologized Tuesday for her government’s failure to combat systemic and regulatory “evils” blamed for the loss of about 300 lives in a ferry disaster.

She did the correct thing and it is probably time to pull the ship out of the water to save the lives of the divers.

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badsey3: Agree . They should actually have pulled the thing out long ago. ............ There was an American expert in this sort of thing on CNN who recommend from the get go they pull the ship out and stabilize it with cranes....... Drill holes on the top to let air in so any survivors could breath for one thing, and they would not hypothermiate , and then get the rescue people to work from the top down rather from under the water . . The problem was Park and her team were going to go headlong and do it their way with little consultation with other pros in this area of ship- disaster management. So - the tragedy of so many beautiful lives

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When I first saw images of he listing vessel I was certain that efforts were going to be concentrated on stabilizing buoyancy and cutting into the bottom (now on top) hull to get at the trapped survivors. I was in complete shock as I saw nothing being done and then the vessel capsized. No doubt the Master officers and crew of the ship should be held responsible. But I would really like to know who was at the operational helm of this utterly botched rescue.

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I still feel the SK president needs to step down from the position. Words are just words and they can do only so much for grieving families.

I don't get this; this culture of "responsibility" which demands high level resignations when something goes wrong, irrespective of the role the individual may have played in the actual incident

Was it President Park who deregulated the ferry industry? Was she personally in charge of the rescue effort? Wouldn't real "responsibility" be not resigning, but seizing on the tragedy as an opportunity to reform Korea's lax regulatory culture so that this sort of thing doesn't happen again?

The scale of the thing is absurd as well. This is unquestionably become a national tragedy, but at the end of the day its 300 people lost out of a nation of 50 million. When a ferry capsizes, a plane crashes, or a train derails, doesn't the responsibility for the emergency response lie with the local and/or regional government? And for this people want the entire national leadership to resign? I honestly don't understand this.

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This is going to get ugly knowing that the ship had been renovated authorized by proper channels BUT had not changed the authorized amount of cargo that can be carried which should have been reduced due to change in height of center of gravity. On top the ship being overloaded still with cargo which basically sealed the ship's fate. Another is response by coast gaurd response team stating to the ship for their passengers to put on their life jackets and REMAIN seated to their designated area while the ship was CAPSIZING. Yet another is the owner of the ship being a religious entity known for their corrupt teaching.

There is going to be a lot of answering to do by a lot of people including the president.

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