Pope Francis has commemorated the more than 300 people killed in a ferry disaster in April in South Korea.<br /><br />On the second day of his first trip to Asia, he met with with families of victims and some survivors of the tragedy ahead of a Mass before around 50,000 people at the World Cup stadium in the central city of Daejeon.<br /><br />At the end of the service, Francis prayed and described the tragedy as a “great national disaster”.<br /><br />He also urged South Koreans, who are among Asia’s richest people, to beware of what he called the spiritual “cancer” that often accompanies affluent societies.
