To navigate us through this tragic crisis, we're joined live in the studio by Dr. Kim
Byoung-joo.
He is Arirang's long-time, regular contributor.
Dr. Kim, thank you so much for joining us.
New speculations have surfaced - that this particular ferry may have violated safety
standards...
as it
went through refurbishments - making the vessel
larger to hold more people than its capacity.
What
do we know about this?
This
is a rare accident - it's not so frequent that Korea sees such accident
so massive in scale - but we
have seen
a few in the past?