{
  "id": 18309878,
  "title": "Sewol ferry sinking archive, ancient cookbooks added to regional UNESCO list",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/sewol-ferry-sinking-archive-ancient-cookbooks-added-to-regional-18309878",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T13:27:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/society/20261105/sewol-ferry-sinking-archive-ancient-cookbooks-added-to-regional-unesco-list"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Thursday, the 2014 Sewol ferry sinking archive and ancient Korean cookbooks were added to the regional UNESCO Memory of the World list. The Danwon High School 4.16 Archive: Records of Citizens' Memory and Healing Movements received inscription at a committee meeting in Jakarta. The Suunjapbang and Eumsikdimibang: Community Archives of Traditional Korean Culinary Knowledge were also included on the list.\n\nThe Sewol archive consists of 235,220 records related to the maritime disaster that occurred on April 16, 2014. The ferry, en route to the southern resort island of Jeju, sank and killed 304 passengers. One of the worst casualties was Danwon High School in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, where 250 out of 325 students aboard the ferry were killed during a school trip.\n\nThe archive includes various documents, such as a calendar for April 2014 collected from a classroom at the school. It also contains records detailing the recovery efforts for the bereaved families of the victims.",
  "summary": "An archive documenting the 2014 Sewol ferry sinking and ancient Korean cookbooks have been added to a regional list of the UNESCO Memory of the World program Thursday. The \"Danwon High School 4.16 Archive: Records of Citizens' Memory and Healing Movements\" was granted inscription at a general meeting of the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific held in Jakarta. The…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Sewol ferry sinking archive, ancient cookbooks added to regional UNESCO list",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/sewol-ferry-sinking-archive-ancient-cookbooks-added-to-regional",
        "published": "2026-11-05T11:30:56.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}