For this time, this will be good chance to introduce about new activism movement that was held in Korea. This new activism movement was held in Korea because of Sewol ferry’s crash. On April 2014, Sewol ferry crashed on Yellow Sea, and more than 200 people were dead because of ferry’s crash. This is one of the saddest things throughout history of Korea, and for first month after the accident, all citizens in Korea mourned for souls who were in Sewol ferry. On the other hand, why new activism movement began from this incident?
There are few but critical reasons besides this reasoning. First reason is captain of the boat. All captains and crews rescued first just after the accident. They were all alive, and most of passengers were dead. People began to be suspicious about the operating group of that ferry, and began to protest to figure out the truth of that group. Second reason is governmental assistance. Just after the happening of this accident, government, in citizen’s view, was hesitating to rescue people in the ferry. People began to be suspicious about not only government but also the relationship between the operating group and the government, and people began to think that there were some “dark” and “underground” transactions between them. People began to be angry about not only accident itself but also the government.
With parents and families of victims, people began to protest in Seoul Plaza, which is in front of city hall. Starting from 100 people, more than hundred thousands of people were gathered on summer night, and protested about, what they call, “its dirtiness.” People shouted to get the truth of “that” company, and more and more people began to blame the government.
The consequence was making new but special law called “Sewol Law.” This law embraces categories that family of victims will get enough care and compensations from the government, and government promised to cooperate to seek the truth of operating company of Sewol ferry. The protest or activism movement with Sewol ferry ended. However, still there are some debates with the law.
First, the law seems totally unfair. The law mentions that because victims in Sewol ferry died without any guilt or reason, they can be compensated. On the other hand, people argue that even victims in car accident should also have rights to get those compensations then, and this is the reason why this law is so unfair for majority of people. There are some people in activism movement who agrees with this law, but there are so many people who disagree with the logic of this law.
Furthermore, in my opinion, I think the solution from the government was totally bad idea. It is more worth when the government will give much more effort to seek and investigate the truth about the families of operating company and corruptions in that company. This activism movement changed the attitude of government toward “regular” people, not rich people. However, there are still so many elements that Korean government should be improved to give more rights to more of people.
There are few but critical reasons besides this reasoning. First reason is captain of the boat. All captains and crews rescued first just after the accident. They were all alive, and most of passengers were dead. People began to be suspicious about the operating group of that ferry, and began to protest to figure out the truth of that group. Second reason is governmental assistance. Just after the happening of this accident, government, in citizen’s view, was hesitating to rescue people in the ferry. People began to be suspicious about not only government but also the relationship between the operating group and the government, and people began to think that there were some “dark” and “underground” transactions between them. People began to be angry about not only accident itself but also the government.
With parents and families of victims, people began to protest in Seoul Plaza, which is in front of city hall. Starting from 100 people, more than hundred thousands of people were gathered on summer night, and protested about, what they call, “its dirtiness.” People shouted to get the truth of “that” company, and more and more people began to blame the government.
The consequence was making new but special law called “Sewol Law.” This law embraces categories that family of victims will get enough care and compensations from the government, and government promised to cooperate to seek the truth of operating company of Sewol ferry. The protest or activism movement with Sewol ferry ended. However, still there are some debates with the law.
First, the law seems totally unfair. The law mentions that because victims in Sewol ferry died without any guilt or reason, they can be compensated. On the other hand, people argue that even victims in car accident should also have rights to get those compensations then, and this is the reason why this law is so unfair for majority of people. There are some people in activism movement who agrees with this law, but there are so many people who disagree with the logic of this law.
Furthermore, in my opinion, I think the solution from the government was totally bad idea. It is more worth when the government will give much more effort to seek and investigate the truth about the families of operating company and corruptions in that company. This activism movement changed the attitude of government toward “regular” people, not rich people. However, there are still so many elements that Korean government should be improved to give more rights to more of people.