With the Sewol's Salvage, Closure May Be Near

Between two floating platforms emerges the rusty hull of a sunken ship. The sight is startling. The Sewol capsized nearly three years ago, on Apr. 16, 2014, killing 304 people. Since then, there has been much talk of the vessel being raised, but little action. To see the physical form with my own eyes, even through the medium of a television screen, feels like a dream. Or the end of a long-running nightmare. I came back to Seoul for good in June 2014. The country was still in the grip of enorm