More than 300 people died after the ferry capsized off the southwestern coast of South Korea in April, the majority of them high school students on a field trip.
On arriving at the scene, Kim failed to broadcast an evacuation order through his ship’s loudspeakers and made no effort to induce passengers to abandon ship, which constituted professional negligence, a court spokesman said.
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