While the Ferry Sewol started to be taken by the waters, several shipwrecked teenagers had the natural and immediate reflex to contact their parents. “I send you this in case I can no longer tell you: Mom I love you,” wrote Shin Young-Jin. “Oh, but I love you too!” Replied his mother, as reported by the France-Presse agency.
Fortunately, the young high school student is survived. Others, however, are among the 287 missing, following the sinking of the South Korean ferry Sewol, which transported 477 passengers, including 324 high school students and 14 teachers on a school trip.
16-year-old Kim Woong-Ki had contacted her older brother before disappearing. “The room in which I am leaning at 45 degrees, my phone no longer works very well,” writes Kim. “Do not panic, do what you are told to do and you will get out of it,” replied his brother.
Another high school student, identified under her only first name, Shin, tried, for his part, to reassure his father: “Dad, don’t worry. I wear my life jacket and I am with the other girls. We are in the boat, in the corridor, ”she wrote. His father replied that you have to go out at all costs. “Dad, I can’t. The boat is leaning too much. The corridor is full of people, ”she wrote in a last message.
