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BREAKING NEWS: Korean Cruise Ship Sinks - 260 lost
Chinese Dragon TV | 4/15/2014 | Chinese Dragon TV

Posted on 04/15/2014 7:09:53 PM PDT by Rockitz

It has just been reported that a Korean cruise ship with 450 aboard has sunk. Only 190 are reported to have been saved- many high schoolers aboard.


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KEYWORDS: ferry; korea; koreanferry; maritime; shipsinks; skorea; sokorea; southkorea
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Oh please God, let this be true. Seju is resort island...a place to go FOR FUN! These are people looking for an escape. Please... let them survive!


41 posted on 04/15/2014 7:48:24 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: Rockitz

**many high schoolers aboard.**

Prayers for their families.


42 posted on 04/15/2014 7:49:37 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: driftdiver

Jejudo is the “tropical” part of Korea and a very popular vacation / tourist spot. A lot of K-Dramas and movies get filmed there as well, so folks like to go see the spots where the filming took place.


43 posted on 04/15/2014 7:49:57 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: GeronL

Its very common for students to take an annual trip as a group. Spring break without the drinking or promiscuity.


44 posted on 04/15/2014 7:50:16 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Bump


45 posted on 04/15/2014 7:51:41 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: kaehurowing

Yes i lived in sk for 3 years. Havent made it there unfortunately.


46 posted on 04/15/2014 7:53:22 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Rockitz; pax_et_bonum; Texas Termite; .30Carbine; 68 grunt; 8mmMauser; admiralsn; Aggie Mama; ...

Prayers needed...Korean Cruise ship is sinking...lots of teens.

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47 posted on 04/15/2014 7:53:43 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska

I join in earnest prayer for them!


48 posted on 04/15/2014 7:58:36 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: driftdiver

My wife has been to Jejudo a couple of times—she loves K-dramas and Korea in general. She goes with her fellow K-drama friends. My only time in Korea was on a one day layover waiting for a flight to Japan, so didn’t really see anything. And it was in the old days before democracy when the military still ran things, so back then it had kind of an oppressive feel with a lot of heavily armed policemen around. It’s totally different today.


49 posted on 04/15/2014 8:03:58 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: Rockitz

Oh God ,Prayers for all.


50 posted on 04/15/2014 8:06:54 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Kathy in Alaska; Rockitz

How awful! Prayers for those souls and for their grieving families!


51 posted on 04/15/2014 8:07:19 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!l)
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To: Rockitz

Thank you Rockitz so we can pray.


52 posted on 04/15/2014 8:09:08 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: SkyDancer; naturalman1975
Bet NK says they did it to provoke?

If,by chance,they *are* responsible I doubt that they'd openly admit it.But they'd probably drop hints through diplomatic channels.

BTW...love your profile page.I particularly like that sign that gives the town's fly population.It reminded me of my visit to Broken Hill,where I learned to do the "Aussie Salute".

53 posted on 04/15/2014 8:11:46 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

AustraliaNetworkNews @an_news · 2m

“The ferry is almost completely submerged.” One dead, hundreds rescued as ferry sinks off South

You should check out the pics of the ferry looks terrible, prayers for everyone on board


54 posted on 04/15/2014 8:25:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: JimSEA

I think it might have been a high school prank where everyone run to one side to see if they can get the boat to tilt like Guam.


55 posted on 04/15/2014 8:30:10 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

If so, they’d be best off with an island in spite of our genius congress critters.


56 posted on 04/15/2014 8:32:55 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Gay State Conservative; SkyDancer
Thanks for the ping to SkyDancer's profile page. Marvellous stuff (except for the *&(*^&%! Vegemite).

And thank God and Reverend Flynn for the Flying Doctor.

By the way, another bit of somewhat amusing Aussie trivia - on the picture next to the one with the fly population, you'll see a road sign for the Stuart Highway. The Stuart Highway has one of its ends at Port Augusta, a bit north of Adelaide, South Australia. There's also a Sturt Highway, that goes east from Adelaide. One letter difference. Get the two confused and you could wind up in Darwin instead of Sydney or vice versa, after thousands of kilometres of bloody nowhere.

All part of making this country even more dangerous for tourists. Although I'm the only person I actually know who (briefly) got the highways confused.

57 posted on 04/15/2014 8:37:47 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: driftdiver
Spring break without the drinking or promiscuity.

Sort of like eating a cone with no ice cream.

58 posted on 04/15/2014 8:40:27 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: tcrlaf

Oh dear lord.

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59 posted on 04/15/2014 8:44:17 PM PDT by Mears
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To: tcrlaf

So tragic. Perhaps the Norks had something to do with this “accident.” Or whoever “disappeared” MH370.

Prayers for the passengers and their families.


60 posted on 04/15/2014 8:46:22 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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