Age: 16
Summary: South
Korean tenth-grade student at Danwon High School on the
outskirts of Seoul, South Korea who was among one of more than 295 passengers
and crew members reported missing and feared dead in the sinking of the
ill-fated MV Sewol Ferry when the five-story ship carrying 476 people on board
(mostly high school students traveling to Jeju Island on a four-day field trip)
reportedly capsized in the murky waters of the Yellow Sea off the south-western
coast of South Korea as Navy divers were trying to rescue hundreds of passengers
from the sunken vessel during one of the country's biggest peacetime disasters
in 20 years, in which the cause of the sinking is not known but the ferry's
captain Lee Joon-seok was arrested along with three helmsmen and a 25-year-old
third mate on suspicion of negligence of duty.
Cause of Death: Drowned during a shipwreck
Born: May 31, 1997
Died: April 16, 2014
Location: Jindo, South Korea