Sunken society with Sewol Ferry: Three Korean social workers’ experience

We are three Korean Social Workers who have described our experiences of the Sewol Ferry disaster using collaborative autoethnography. We were standing in the turmoil of this disaster, trying to help people in crisis, but still curious about what we can do as Social Workers to help people living in such societal crisis. As we tell our stories we have tried to understand ourselves and offer a psychosocial analysis of the social dynamics in Korean sociocultural context and the collective responses to the loss and trauma during this man-made disaster, so that we can find out what Korean social workers can do or have to do in disasters like this and further this society be better conscious through empathy. We have learned that social workers should be the ego trainer and container to help people.