Study finds health impact on families of Sewol victims

Bereaved families of victims of the 2014 ferry disaster in South Korea have been visiting hospitals more frequently than the general population, a recent study by a local medical school found. Researchers from the College of Medicine at Chung-Ang University tracked hospital visits of 388 people who lost family members in the sinking of the Sewol and compared them with a control group of 1,552 similar individuals between 2011 and 2022. The study found that bereaved family members received an aver

By The Korea Herald