Yoo who?

FLASHED across television screens and pasted in village buses, posters depict Yoo Byung-eun in various disguises. The reward for tip-offs, recently increased to 500m won ($491,000), is the highest ever offered for a fugitive in South Korea. The manhunt is now in its fourth week and is a constant reminder of a tragedy that still haunts the government of Park Geun-hye.

Mr Yoo is wanted on charges of tax evasion, embezzlement and negligence in connection with the nation’s deadliest maritime disaster in decades. On April 16th the Sewol ferry sank on its way to Jeju, a popular resort, claiming the lives of almost 300 passengers, many of them schoolchildren. In a raid on the offices of Chonghaejin Marine, the firm that operated the ferry, police found an organogram with Mr Yoo at its head and a payroll in his name.