The victims will always be remembered and cherished
If you aren’t aware, to be informed please read this thread #remember0416

On April 16th 2014, the MV Sewol Ferry capsized and sank on its route from the mainland to Jeju Island in South Korea. Almost all of the 476 people on board were students from Danwon High School, aged 14-15, as the entire second year class was on an overnight field trip to Jeju.

The disaster left 304 dead, 250 of them high school students. The second year class of Danwan High School originally had 325 students, but when the school reopened after the disaster, that class was made up of only 75 students.

—the yellow ribbon is the symbol of remembrance associated with the Sewol Ferry disaster hence the picture

Spring Day has also been used in many memorial services for the victims of the disaster. The father of one of the victims said in a statement, "Without anyone knowing, BTS quietly visited our kids through their song and video. They showed us their unforgotten hearts. Yae-eun+

would've liked it a lot, too.”

"I want everything to be a lie," high school student and survivor Oh Hae-youn said about the disaster. "When I wake up in the morning, I feel like everything feels right. Then I realize it's not. I just wish everything was a lie."

Namjoon — , "As a citizen of this country, I do believe we should feel responsible. We thought we could send our condolences if we could. We donated because we wanted to help.” Namjoon has also said that he wrote the song in one afternoon, after seeing a leaf fall in a park.

The boys were allegedly on a sanctioned blacklist due to the President at the time creating it of any artists or celebrities who spoke out against her or her regime or even mentioned the ferry disaster publicly,, however this is too political and i won’t delve too into to it

they were on this blacklist for having privately donated 100 million Korean won to the victims’ families for funeral costs and psychological services. The general public had not known about BTS’s donations until a few of the families chose to publicize it.

TW: Sui/cide

The official count of survivors is 171, not 172, because a few days after the disaster, the vice principal of the high school Kang Min-kyu committed sui/cide. He wrote in his sui/cide note:

"Scatter my ashes at the site of the sunken ferry, so that in the afterlife I may become a teacher to my students who have not been rescued."