Sinking of MV Sewol

The body of one more crew member was recovered from a cargo vessel that sank off the coast of Istanbul on Nov. 1, as rescue efforts continued for a third day

South Korea's Supreme Court on Npv. 12 upheld a murder conviction and life sentence for the captain in the Sewol ferry disaster, saying he had effectively drowned more than 300 passengers to save himself.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on May 21 selected her justice minister to become the new prime minister -- a post that has become something of a poisoned chalice under her administration.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on April 27 accepted the resignation of her prime minister over a widening bribery scandal that has tainted senior members of her faltering administration.

More than 100 relatives of victims of South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster tearfully cast flowers into the sea April 15 at an emotional memorial event on the eve of the tragedy's first anniversary.
      

Around 50 mothers and fathers of victims of last year's South Korean ferry disaster had their heads shaved in central Seoul on April 2, to push demands for an effective and genuinely independent inquiry.
      

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye finally got a new prime minister on her third attempt Feb. 16, despite claims by opposition lawmakers that her nominee was morally unfit for the office.
      
Lee Wan-Koo, a senior legislator from Park's ruling Saenuri party, was approved in parliament by 148 votes to 128 after a tortuous nomination process.
      

The head of the company that operated South Korea's ill-fated Sewol ferry was sentenced to 10 years in prison Nov. 20, after being convicted of manslaughter over the disaster that killed more than 300 people.
      

The captain of the South Korean ferry that sank in April with the loss of more than 300 lives was jailed for 36 years Nov. 11, but acquitted of murdering those who died in the disaster.
      

South Korean prosecutors on Oct. 27 sought the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people dead or missing.