ASIA: Hundreds missing in S. Korea ferry capsize

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published April 17, 2014

JINDO, South Korea, April 17 - The frantic search for nearly 300 people, most of them schoolchildren, missing after a ...

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