For nearly 1 hour, hundreds of students were waiting to be rescued from the ferry Sewol after the first distress call was sent, but the precious “golden time”, when significant rescue efforts could have been made was wasted, according to video clips retrieved from the mobile phones of the teenagers.
On top of the irresponsible captain Lee Joon-seok, the Coast Guard’s inept initial response is further enraging many people who believe that many more people could have been saved if the Coast Guard had reacted more efficiently and swiftly. |
