{"id":20974,"date":"2014-07-10T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20974"},"modified":"2014-07-10T01:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:00:44","slug":"friday-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20974","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive Search Included Sapphire Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of yesterday, the world is still looking for Yoo Byung-eun. If you've never heard of Yoo, don't be embarrassed, but everybody in South Korea has. He is the country's most  wanted man and South Koreans are looking for him everywhere — even on cruise ships.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 73-year-old (or his family) owns the ferry (Sewol) on which 292 people died, in April. A warrant for his arrest was issued in May and yesterday in court, it was \"south-korea-ferry-disaster-sewol-ferry\"<\/a>revealed the ferry's license was based on falsified documents, which only ramped up the tensions and anger amount family members of the victims.<\/p>\n

The reward for information leading to his arrest is now almost $500,000 US.<\/p>\n

One of the virtual haystacks in which government authorities were looking was the Sapphire Princess<\/a>, at the port of Incheon, near Seoul<\/a>. There was a party on board when the ship arrived and 200 Korean guests were invited. That is, there was supposed to be a party.<\/p>\n

Customs officials revoked the party license. They were afraid Yoo would slip unnoticed onto the ship amid the partygoers and be a stowaway until he could escape.<\/p>\n

Understandably, Princess<\/a> was choked. Also offended. Why not just step up security?<\/p>\n

Anybody who has boarded a cruise ship these days, even if only for a visit, knows it's next to impossible to beat security…and especially, in this case, given the fugitive's notoriety. Any cruise line that we know of would catch him in the act.<\/p>\n

And a half-million-dollar reward would have nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

Today at Phil Reimer's <\/span><\/a>portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: The latest in cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Caribbean Princess<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tSeptember 6, 2014<\/span>
\n\tFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): <\/span>Grand Cayman<\/a>, <\/span>Roatan<\/a>, <\/span>Cozumel<\/a>, <\/span>Princess Cays<\/a>
\n\tInside: $599<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $85<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of yesterday, the world is still looking for Yoo Byung-eun. If you've never heard of Yoo, don't be embarrassed, but everybody in South Korea has. He is the country's most  wanted man and South Koreans are looking for him everywhere — even on cruise ships. The 73-year-old (or his family) owns the ferry (Sewol)… Continue reading Fugitive Search Included Sapphire Princess<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,31,15],"tags":[137,564,912,72,35,26,27,957,65,1659,1660,1661],"class_list":["post-20974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-caribbean-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-sapphire-princess","tag-sewol","tag-south-korea-ferry","tag-yoo-byung-eun","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}