What Went Wrong in the South Korean Ferry Disaster? | The New Yorker
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly cites it as an example of institutional failure and deference to hierarchy during a disaster.
What it is
A New Yorker short documentary about the 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry in South Korea, based on the film In the Absence. It examines the failures in the rescue and the political aftermath.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends aaron695 · 2020-07 · on “The Eastland disaster killed more passengers than the Titanic and the Lusitania”
If you're interested in light retrospectives this is ok for a modern day ferry disaster - What Went Wrong in the South Korean Ferry Disaster? (28 mins) [this video] The MS Estonia also has doco's on Youtube
Cites rasz · 2020-02 · on “New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan”
This somehow resembles both Fukushima and Korean Sewol disaster 'recovery efforts', [this video] . Social norms (face, status) above common sense.
Cites sho_hn · 2023-06 · on “Debris field found in search for missing submersible”
[LINK] [this video] A friend of mine was involved with computer forensics on recovered cellphones on this one. Just awful.
Cites rasz · 2024-07 · on “Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking”
> There's even a case where this resulted in an air disaster Lets not forget Sewol disaster 'recovery efforts' [this video] [LINK] where no rescue was even attempted before letting President decide (establishing video feed to command center).