South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrives to attend an emergency cabinet meeting at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, December 9, 2016. Yonhap/ via REUTERS
SEOUL (Reuters) - Seven hours may have sealed the fate of South Korea's beleaguered President Park Geun-hye. That was the time between the first news reports that the Sewol ferry carrying hundreds of children was sinking off the nation's southern coast on April 16, 2014 and her first TV appearance that day.
The tragedy, which claimed the lives of 304 people – many of them kids from one high school – continues to gnaw at the nation's consciousness, especially because a rescue effort was widely seen as botched.
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