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: January 6, 1998
Died: April 16, 2014
Location: Jindo, South Korea