Man gets 1-yr prison term for defaming Sewol ferry, Itaewon crush victims

A man accused of posting false information about the victims and bereaved family members of the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster and the Itaewon crowd crush in 2022 was sentenced to one year in prison Monday. The Seoul Western District Court handed down the sentence to the man surnamed Kang after convicting him of defamation. Kang, in his 50s, was arrested and indicted on charges of writing false and insulting posts about people involved in the two disasters on his blog since 2021. He alleged that the