The Sacrificial Heroine of the Ferry Sinking, Attendant Jiyoung Park
Receives an Honorary Diploma
(Suwon, Korea, Yonhap News) Jiyoung Park, the ferry attendant who died helping passengers escape as the ferry Sewol sank, has received an honorary diploma.
Chulsoo Park, the president of Suwon Science University, along with university employees, went to Inha University Hospital funeral parlor, where Jiyoung Park's body is lying in repose, and presented the diploma to her grieving family.
In 2011, Ms. Park began studying industrial management at Suwon Science University, when her father was diagnosed with cancer and later died from it. Park put her studies on hold to support her mother and younger sister. In October of 2012, she was introduced by her uncle to employment with Cheonghaejin Haeun [the name of the ferry company]. She was working on the ferry Sewol when the accident occurred. She helped passengers to safety and yielded up her own life vest to a student.
"Being such a devoted and loyal person, she was more passionate about her studies than anyone else. She was such a good student among her friends," recalled industrial management professor Inho Kwon. "Almost all of her classmates have attended her wake."
A spokesperson for the university announced, "She expressed her desire to return to her studies many times. Her classmates have graduation ahead of them; we decided to present her a diploma as well."
Six hundred students from Suwon University's student volunteer club and another four hundred employee members of the university's volunteer organization have decided to volunteer at the Jindo gym where the families of the ferry accident victims have gathered, starting from the 21st.
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