> How much do people actually believe the sinking of the Sewol was a human sacrifice of hundreds of children to honor a cult founder?
I've encountered this belief in the wild. Let's put it this way, my impression is that a lot of Koreans feel there's something fishy about the Sewol case (one of my engineer friends was involved with data recovery from the cellphoens collected from victims, and has expressed similar sentiments). I doubt there's a strong belief in this specific scenario, but there's a lot of distrust that jibes with it - it's more a "can't rule it out at this point", perhaps? Overall there's probably more "casual Sewol truthers" than 9/11 truthers, for a comparison.
> How likely is it that that's actually true?
Haven't the faintest. My own mind tends to assume incompetence above all other causes for disaster, but maybe it's a line of inquiry someone should have a look at.
I've encountered this belief in the wild. Let's put it this way, my impression is that a lot of Koreans feel there's something fishy about the Sewol case (one of my engineer friends was involved with data recovery from the cellphoens collected from victims, and has expressed similar sentiments). I doubt there's a strong belief in this specific scenario, but there's a lot of distrust that jibes with it - it's more a "can't rule it out at this point", perhaps? Overall there's probably more "casual Sewol truthers" than 9/11 truthers, for a comparison.
> How likely is it that that's actually true?
Haven't the faintest. My own mind tends to assume incompetence above all other causes for disaster, but maybe it's a line of inquiry someone should have a look at.