She wasn’t responsible for the accident. Makes no sense. Just like they’re arresting 15 crew members even though it wasn’t their fault. It’s the captain and whomever his immediate underlings’ fault for not being at the helm as required.
The Vice-Principal of the school that organized the field trip for those hundreds of students also committed suicide afterwards.
From Reddit, his suicide note:
Here is his suicide note:
“While 200 (students) are dead or alive, it is too much for my strength to live alone.
Give me full responsibility. I was the one who carried forward with the class trip. Cremate my body and spread my ashes near the sunken boat site. In the afterlife, maybe I will be the teacher to the students whose bodies have not been found.”
It's a Confucian act. When disaster befalls the group, the head figure is expected to take full responsibility, because the head figure (ruler of the country, CEO of the business, principal of the school, father/grandfather of the home, etc.) has responsibility for the well-being of all those underneath him--or in this case, her.
For example, in 1985, the CEO of JAL resigned the day after an airplane disaster killed 550+ passengers on a jumbo jet, even though he had nothing to do with the crash. If he had been a samurai in the Edo era, he would have disemboweled himself.
This is what true leaders do. Clinton didn’t do the honorable thing and resign over the Monica tryst. Hillary didn’t resign over Benghazi. Sibelius didn’t resign over the Obamacare website debacle. The list can go on and on. In Korea and Japan, there is also the cultural aspect. It has to do with honor and shame.
If the crew ordered people to stay below while they abandoned ship, they should be charged
As zer0 is visiting the Korean PM felt it was important to think “what would zer0 do?....apologize for everything your country does....yeah that's the ticket”
To paraphrase a movie line: "Jake, it's South Korea."
They are arresting crew members who left the boat before finishing their jobs evacuating and/or releasing life boats. Goes with the job and captain or no captain, sometimes you ( crewmen) have to step up. They all need to be kept under lock and key until all the details are known especially since one doofus already harikerried himself.