韩国总理郑烘原引咎辞职

韩国总理郑烘原引咎辞职

韩国总理郑烘原因4月16日沉船事件引咎辞职。

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won has resigned over the government’s response to the April 16th ferry disaster.

Chung said in a brief announcement that keeping his post was too great a burden on the administration. Chung was booed and someone threw a water bottle at him when he visited grieving parents the day after the disaster. The Sewol ferry sank on a routine trip south from the port of Incheon to the traditional holiday island of Jeju.

More than 300 people, most of them students and teachers from one high school on a field trip, died or are missing and presumed dead. Tempers have flared over the slow pace of the recovery and frequent changes in information provided by the government, including at one time by a local government that everyone had been rescued.

File photo taken on May 30, 2013 shows South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won address the Jeju forum on Jeju island, South Korea. Chung Hong-won resigned on Sunday over the government's response to the April 16 Sewol ferry disaster that has left nearly 300 people dead or missing. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)