As grieving families and friends share their pain, heartbreaking stories and tributes emerge from the Jeju Air crash in South Korea. The crash claimed the lives of 179 people, including two Thai nationals, with most victims aged in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. Among the deceased were a family of three, a three-year-old boy traveling with his parents, and nine members of a single family spanning three generations.
A family member of a Thai victim of the Jeju Air crash visits the site at Muan airport in south-western South Korea .A family member of a Thai victim of the Jeju Air crash visits the site at Muan airport in south-western South Korea .
The victims included nine people spanning three generations of the same family, according to the Yonhap news agency. They included the eldest, a 79-year-old man, who was returning from a holiday with his wife, their two daughters and one of their sons-in-law, their granddaughter and three grandsons. Weeks ago Sirithon, known by the nickname Mei, had been happily posing for selfies with her girlfriends in Bangkok in an area famous for its street food. Her social media pages showed she liked K-pop and kittens, art classes and dying her bangs bright blue.
“It is unbearable for him. This was his youngest daughter,” she said, adding that all three of his children worked abroad. For Maeng Gi-su’s nephew and his nephew’s two sons, a celebratory trip to Thailand to mark the end of the college entrance exams ended in tragedy. “I can’t believe the entire family has just disappeared,” Maeng, 78, told the BBC. “My heart aches so much.”
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