Will '7-hour mystery' of Sewol sinking be resolved? Court says no reason not to release documents

Ex-President Park Geun-hye's actions in the first seven hours of the 2014 ferry sinking, which left 304 dead or missing, have remained mostly undisclosed for over a decade. But the Seoul High Court ruled Friday that the Presidential Archives had no grounds to keep the much-dispute record undisclosed, potentially paving the way for the related documents to be released to the public. The ruling is the latest in a case brought by Song Ki-ho, a lawyer for the Lawyers for a Democratic Society at the

By The Korea Herald