Resumen de Faith After Sewol
On April 16, 2014, in the south sea of Korea, a ferry named Sewol sank and 304 people were killed, including 250 high school students who were on their field trip. Koreans witnessed painfully and powerlessly the victims dying in the cold water, which terrified and traumatized them. It was not simply a marine accident but culminating tragic event caused by decades of accumulated social problems and evils. Because of the complexity behind the tragedy, there were mixed responses to the suffering of the victims and their bereaved families, such as empathy, apathy, and antipathy, sometimes sequentially and sometimes simultaneously. The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to examine these complex social and religious responses to the tragedy, focusing on the Christian bereaved families’ struggle to make sense of their faith in the face of their unspeakable suffering.
