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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Korean Ferry Accident Result of Unlearned Lesson [Watch (HLS stream): Korean Ferry Accident Result of Unlearned Lesson](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/p6yqoI3g.m3u8) (1:59)  _Published 2014-04-26. Lessons learned from a Japanese ferry accident in 2009 might have been able to prevent the Korean ferry's fate._ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:34 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Captain, Crew Of Sunken S. Korean Ferry Indicted](/video/sMvdkFTS/) ### Captain, Crew Of Sunken S. Korean Ferry Indicted [First Responder on Scene of South Korean Ferry Disaster Speaks](/video/xb1pCHoS/) ### First Responder on Scene of South Korean Ferry Disaster Speaks [Watch: Chilling Footage of The South Korean Ferry Rescue](/video/kGq8jYxk/) ### Watch: Chilling Footage of The South Korean Ferry Rescue --- ## Transcript The Sewol Ferry sinking, with hundreds of people trapped inside. Shocking Korea and the world. But, in Japan, this is deja vu. [ FOREIGN ] November 13, 2009, a Japanese ferry named Ariake was traveling from Tokyo to Okinawa. Less than 12 hours into the journey. [ FOREIGN ]. The ocean current was very rough, says Professor Yutaka Watanabe, a marine scientist. He says the current shifted the Ariake's cargo to one side. Causing the ship to capsize. The Ariake Ferry doesn't just look like the Korean ferry accident. The two ships were made by the same builder. [ SOUND ]. Run by the same operator. [ SOUND ]. They weighed almost the same. And capsized nearly the same time into their journey. But here's a major difference, says Professor Watanabe. When the Koreans bought the ferry from Japan, they expanded it to pack in more people. Turning it into a ticking time bomb. [ FOREIGN ] The Koreans bought a used vessel from Japan and added lots of cabins, says Watanabe. And the cabins were built on top. The Japanese ferry accident had only 29 passengers and crew aboard. And the crew saved everyone. [ FOREIGN ] Pulling them to the upper deck and deploying all the lifeboats. In the wake of its ferry accident, Japan toughened ship regulations to lock down and limit cargo. Especially in poor weather or currents. Since that change in the law, Japan has had zero accidents in vessels of this size. [ SOUND ]. The Korean ferry company has appears not to have known much about the risks of cargo and the current. It bought the Japanese ship in 2012. Refitted it to carry hundreds more passengers, and launched it as a Sewol. The doomed ferry would carry the passengers to a disaster Japan had already learned to prevent. Yung La, CNN. 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