by Our Foreign Desk

LEE JOON SEOK, the ferry captain responsible for last year’s disaster that killed more than 300 people, mostly schoolchildren, had his prison term increased to life yesterday.

He had been sentenced by a district court in November to 36 years in jail for negligence and abandoning passengers in need.However, the Gwangju High Court convicted him of the additional charge of homicide yesterday, increasing his sentence to life.