Remember the Korean Ferry accident in April

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turns out that in the intervening months there has been quite a story going on.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/07/24/south_korean_ferry_church_tycoon_fugitive_found_dead_in_orchard.html



The Sewol sank in April, killing a presumed 304 people, though not every presumed victim's body has been recovered.
Investigators came to believe that the operators of the ferry contributed to the disaster by overloading the ship and failing to properly train its crew.
The question of who actually owned the ferry was itself a complicated one, and prosecutors eventually targeted Yoo Byung-eun, a 73-year-old billionaire and a founder of the controversial Evangelical Baptist Church.
In the 1980s, 32 members of an offshoot of the Evangelical Baptist Church committed mass suicide, and the investigation ultimately led to Yoo's conviction for fraud. He spent four years in prison.
Rather than turn himself in over the Sewol case, Yoo became a fugitive. When the police raided an Evangelical Baptist Church compound to look for information on his whereabouts, literally thousands of officers were involved.
Yoo's church owns the website God.com.

Imagine if Bernard Madoff founded the Branch Davidians and became a fugitive like O.J. Simpson after perpetrating the Challenger disaster, and you have something like an American analogy for what was going on in South Korea


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I had no idea all of this was going on.

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1. Very strange story.

Thanks for posting.