South Korea's sunken Seoul ferry emerged from the waters on March 23, Thursday. There is nearly three years after it went down with the loss of more than 300 lives and dealt a crushing blow to now-ousted President Park Geun Hye.

According to The Telegraph, the Seoul ferry was structurally unsounded, overloaded and unsound too fast on a turn. The vessel was capsized and sank during a routine voyage off the southwest coast on April 16, 2014.

As a result of this incident, 304 schoolchildren was dead and it is thought that nine bodies are still unaccounted for may be trapped inside the sunken ship. This incident has raised the Seoul intact has been a key demand of the families of the victims.

ALJAZEERA has reported that most of the 304 victims of the Seoul ferry incident on 2014 were teenage school children from the Danwon High School in Ansan, near Seoul. Many perished after being told to wait in the cabin instead of evacuating. Still, nine bodies were never found.

The mother of Yang Seung, a teacher said," I really miss my son. I hope he gets out of the freezing water and meets me here". She wept on the island of Jindo, near where the ship went down. The anxious families gathered on a boat to oversee the raising of the ship, while others watched from the top of a hill onshore.

The local news report stated that the 145 meter-long Seoul ferry, was trapped in a 40m underwater for 1073 days, have begun to break the surface at about 4 am. The Chinese consortium began to use two salvage barges to raise it in $72 million operations.

However, after the incident, Captain Lee Jun Seok was sentenced to life in prison for "murder through wilful negligence". Beside this, 14 others crew members were given terms ranging from two to 12 years.

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