Earlier this year, the Sewol ferry sank off Korea’s southern coast with 304 passengers drowned, mainly school children. An article by Jae-Jung Suh draws attention to an abdication of responsibility by the Korean Government and many others. He says ‘The whole tragedy serves as a reminder of how neoliberal deregulation and privatisation puts people’s safety and life at risk through a process of state collusion with business interests and how a powerful national security state may fail to protect its own people from internal dangers it helps create.’

Jae-Jung Suh has been Head of Korean Studies at John Hopkins University in Washington for over a decade.

The link to his important and disturbing report can be found below. John Menadue

http://www.japanfocus.org/-Jae_Jung-Suh/4195