South Korea conducted a nationwide emergency exercise on Friday to raise awareness about fire safety.

The Mayor of Seoul Park Won-soon, took part in the training outside Seoul City Hall, learning how to use a fire extinguisher and fire hose.

City Hall was evacuated and its employees were trained in safety fire safety and resuscitation techniques.

It was the first nationwide safety drill to be conducted since the Sewol ferry disaster in April.

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1. Various of government employees in mock evacuation of Seoul City Hall

2. Mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon and other civil workers putting out fire with fire extinguishers

3. Close-up of Park and workers after using fire extinguisher

4. Various of Park using fire hose

5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Song Doo-suk, Director of Civil Defence Division:

"This Civilian Defence Exercise is a nationwide fire evacuation drill, that took place after the Sewol Ferry disaster. Through this exercise, (we) hope awareness about fire safety among civilians will rise."

6. Various of man demonstrating use of fire extinguisher

7. Various of women practicing resuscitation techniques

US President Barack Obama met his South Korean counterpart in Seoul on Friday, on the second leg of his four-country Asian tour.

Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye held a silent prayer for the victims of the ferry disaster that sank off South Korea's southern coast over a week ago.

Obama's visit comes at a sensitive time for Park, whose attention is unavoidably split between her economic agenda with the US president and the unfolding aftermath of the tragic ferry disaster.

He flew to Seoul from Japan, a major US ally whose relationship with South Korea has deteriorated over historical resentments stemming from World War II.

After South Korea Obama will travel to Malaysia and the Philippines.

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1. US President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye walking onto podium for welcoming ceremony

2. South Korean honour guard at ceremony

3. Obama and Park standing during ceremony

4. US delegation at ceremony

5. Various of Obama and Park inspecting honour guard

6. Various of Obama meeting South Korean foreign minister Yun Byung-se (left) and other officials

7. Obama entering meeting room for meeting with Park

8. Wide of Park and Obama beginning silent prayer for victims of ferry accident

9. Various of silent prayer

10. Various of meeting

Across the South Korean capital, Seoul, spring festivities have been put on hold out of respect to the victims of the Sewol ferry disaster and their families.

Instead of celebrating a season associated with renewal and rebirth, Seoul residents from many walks of life said on Tuesday they found it far more appropriate to join together in mourning.

In light of the tragedy, Seoul National University student council decided to postpone their spring festival scheduled for May, after their midterm exams.

The Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel has cancelled its "signature events", like wine and beer fairs, in recognition of the national mourning which has so many South Koreans in its thrall.

Kim Hong-hee, director of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), said the museum has chosen not to go ahead with a number of events in its spring schedule.

"We thought that in this current nationwide atmosphere of mourning, for the Sewol ferry sinking, such events were a little inappropriate," she said.

Nearly a week has passed since the Sewol ferry sank off South Korea's southern coast on 16 April.

The confirmed death toll from the disaster reached 113 on Tuesday, officials said, and about 190 people were still missing, thought to be trapped underwater inside the sunken vessel.

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1. Wide of memorial for the victims of the Sewol ferry accident outside the student union building at Seoul National University (SNU)

2. Tilt of poster announcing that the student council has unanimously voted to cancel the upcoming spring festival, reads (Korean): "Announcement to the students of Seoul National University regarding the Sewol incident by the Student Council"

3. Mid of SNU students in front of the memorial wall covered in ribbons

4. Various of student writing a message on a ribbon

5. Pull out of pink ribbon reading (Korean): "Hoping for a miracle" to students pinning ribbons

6. Mid of SNU Student Council President Yi Kyoung-hwan

7. Close of Student Council meeting agenda notes (number four is on the discussion of cancelling the spring festival)

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Yi Kyoung-hwan, 27, Student Council President at Seoul National University:

"When taking into consideration the (current) sentiment of South Koreans, outside of classes, there is a strong element of having fun in holding a festival. In light of this current, extremely tragic disaster, the students preparing the festival could not focus on the festival in a cheerful way. So the student council held a meeting and decided to cancel the festival."

9. Pan from poster reading (Korean): "We sincerely wish the safe return of the missing passengers on the Sewol, from the 56th SNU student council" to student writing a message by the memorial wall

10. Close of pink ribbon reading (Korean): "I will be praying for your safety"

11. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Jeong Jun-ho, 23, Seoul National University student:

"Many people were hurt in Jindo because of the (Sewol ferry) accident, and even now they are looking for the missing (passengers). Even though it's important for us students to have fun and really enjoy the festival, I personally think that it's a good thing to cancel the festival, so that we can grieve and mourn together."

12. Tilt of Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel exterior

13. Close of the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel logo

14. Mid of Kim Do-young, Operations Management Director at Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel

15. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Do-young, Operations Management Director at Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel:

"This incident, regarding the Sewol Ferry, has led to an atmosphere of mourning across the nation. At our hotel, the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill, we also want to take part in this by temporarily postponing our signature events, such as our wine fair or beer fair."

16. Wide of Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) exterior

17. Close of "Seoul Museum of Art" sign

18. Mid of Kim Hong-hee, director of SeMA in office

19. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Hong-hee, director of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA):

"It's spring. There are a lot of events in spring, and at events where many people gather, it turns into a festive atmosphere. We thought that in this current nationwide atmosphere of mourning, for the Sewol ferry sinking, such events were a little inappropriate."

20. Mid of museum exhibition posters

21. Various of woman taking photo of friend in front of the museum

Fifteen crew members from the sunken South Korean ferry pleaded their case at a district court in South Korea on Tuesday, while the families of the hundreds of people who died in the disaster protested outside.

Kim Byung-kwon, the representative of the families of the victims, called for the death penalty for the crew of the Sewol.

The Captain (Lee Joon-seok) and three other crew members are charged with homicide - a charge that could carry the death penalty, though South Korea has not

executed anyone since late 1997.

Prosecutors accuse them of tacitly colluding to abandon the ship while being aware that the passengers would be trapped and killed when the ship sank.

All surviving crew members responsible for the ship's navigation have been charged with negligence and with failing to do their duty to protect passengers.

The captain's lawyer said the factors that caused the sinking couldn't be controlled by a captain who operated the ferry only six days a month as a contract worker.

The lawyer said the captain didn't flee the ship, tried to correct the ferry's balance and asked people to wear life vests, even though he was injured.

Members of the crew have claimed that after evacuating the ship they stayed with the Coast Guard and helped to rescue the passengers.

Nearly two months after the sinking, 292 bodies have been recovered and 12 people are still missing.

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1. Relatives of victims of Sewol ferry disaster protesting outside Gwangju District Court, where ferry crew are having a preliminary hearing, police guard the court

2. Relatives sitting on road during protest

3. Relatives holding placards reading (Korean) "Our children wait for you murderers," and "Our children's souls are watching you"

4. Various of representative of Sewol victims' families Kim Byung-kwon chanting (Korean) "Come out if you are not ashamed, come out"

5. Kim speaking to media outside court

6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Byung-kwon, representative of Sewol victims' families:

"If they do not get the death penalty, it would be nonsense that they can walk freely in our country. They do not deserve to walk freely in our country."

7. Gwangju Regional Court Judge and spokesman Hahn Jee-hyung walking in to news briefing

8. Wide of conference room

9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Hahn Jee-hyung, Gwangju District Court Judge and spokesman:

"Generally there were assertions that the crew members did not have the intention to murder or to escape. In the case of the Captain (Lee Joon-seok), he claims he announced the order to abandon the ship before he got out of the ferry. As for the accused (crew members) Park and Oh, they said they tried to open up the life boat on board the ship and after getting out of the ferry they had been helping with the rescue of passengers along with the Coast Guard."

10. Cutaway of journalists

11. Wide of conference room

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Seoul, 9 April 2015

1. Wide shot Sean Hepburn Ferrer - Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund's president and the eldest son of Audrey Hepburn - arriving for press conference

2. Medium shot Sean Hepburn Ferrer

3. Wide shot Ferrer family (Emma Kathleen Ferrer, Karin Hofer Hepburn Ferrer, Sean Hepburn Ferrer) and families of victims (right) seated for press conference

4. Medium shot journalists

5. Wide shot Ferrer family and families of victims at press conference

6. Close-up of Sean Hepburn Ferrer

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund president:

"A year has now passed and instead of sending flowers to the families, we wished to create something beautiful. A natural platform amidst all of the investigations, all of the pain, all of the politics. We wanted to create a platform that would bring some feelings of hope, comfort and that would create a place from which everyone can work towards the future - where a tragedy like this will not repeat itself."

8. Cutaway journalists

9. Wide shot victims' families at the conference

10. Wide shot press conference

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund president:

"Why when there is life at risk, why are the children not put in the first position? Why is it more important not to lose face? Why is it more important to hide a problem? Why is it more important... I don't know all the details and I think what these families want is clarity and for these ways to change - where people are prioritized above business, above politics, about the needs even to tell a story a certain way."

12. Cutawayjournalists

13. Close-up Karin Hofer Hepburn Ferrer

14. Medium shot press conference

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund president:

"The families are not going to leave for families that cannot find closure because their children are still trapped in the ship. So they're going to stay there until everybody gets out of this nightmare. Just the same as a society. We cannot move forward and have our comfortable lives, knowing that 20,000 children die every day. It's A very similar dynamic if you think about it."

16. Wide shot Ferrer family and victims' families waiting for photo op

17. Close-up badge symbolizing Danwon High School on Ferrer's chest

18. Close-up banner reading the website address for the foundation's forest project

19. Wide shot Ferrer family and victims' families posing for photos

AUDREY HEPBURN'S SON ANNOUNCES PROJECT PAYING TRIBUTE TO VICTIMS OF SOUTH KOREAN FERRY DISASTER

Sean Hepburn Ferrer, the eldest son of late actress Audrey Hepburn, was in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday (9 APRIL 2015) to announce plans for a forest project which will pay tribute to the victims of last year's South Korean ferry disaster.

Hepburn Ferrer, who is president of the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, said the project, called the Sewol Memorial Forest, will commemorate and pay respect to those who perished in the disaster in April 2014.

"A year has now passed and instead of sending flowers to the families, we wished to create something beautiful. A natural platform amidst all of the investigations, all of the pain, all of the politics. We wanted to create a platform that would bring some feelings of hope, comfort and that would create a place from which everyone can work towards the future - where a tragedy like this will not repeat itself."

When asked why he cares so much about the incident, Hepburn Ferrer said he was touched by the plight of the victims' families and angered by the South Korean investigation into the disaster.

"Why when there is life at risk, why are the children not put in the first position? Why is it more important not to lose face? Why is it more important to hide a problem? Why is it more important... I don't know all the details and I think what these families want is clarity and for these ways to change - where people are prioritized above business, above politics, about the needs even to tell a story a certain way."

The Sewol Memorial Forest will be built on a hill on the southwestern island of Jindo, which is around 4.18km away from the Paeng-Mok port - the nearest port to the disaster site.

The MV Sewol ferry sank on the morning of 16th April 2014 en route from Incheon to Jeju island with 476 passengers onboard.

The sinking resulted in the deaths of 295 people, with 250 of the dead being high school students on a field trip. There are still nine passengers unaccounted for.

The captain of the ship was sentenced to 36 years in prison for his actions on the day.

Relatives of victims of the Sewol ferry disaster said on Tuesday they will fight for justice after a South Korean court handed a 36-year sentence to the captain of the sunken ferry.

Gwangju District Court acquitted Captain Lee Joon-seok of a homicide charge because it was difficult to believe that he knew his actions would cause such a huge number of deaths, according to a court statement.

It said that Lee had issued an evacuation order.

The court did convict him however of being professionally negligent and abandoning his passengers during the disaster in April that killed more than 300 people.

Family members criticised the verdict for being too lenient, telling the media outside the court they would tighten their resolve until "we reveal the truth at the Court of Appeal through a Special Investigative Committee."

Whilst Ko Young-hee, the mother of student victim Choi Jin-hyuk said a Sewol Ferry Investigation Committee would now be formed that will collect evidence to send to the Court of Appeal.

"We will do anything to make the crew members....pay for their crimes accordingly" she added.

Prosecutors and the crew members have one week to appeal, according to the court.

The chief engineer got 30 years, and 13 other crew members were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, Yonhap news agency and other South Korean media reported, citing the court.

Lee has apologised for abandoning the passengers, but said he didn't know his action would lead to so many deaths.

The widely vilified Lee could have received a death sentence for the homicide charges.

A total of 476 people were aboard the ship and only 172 of them were rescued.

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Gwangju - 11 November 2014

1. News conference by family members of Danwon High School student victims from the Sewol Ferry disaster

2. Close of family members

3. Close of a mother of one student victim

4. Father of one student victim talking during the conference

5. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Park Jong-dae, father of Danwon High School student victim Park Soo-hyun:

"I kind of expected this situation (no death-penalty or life-sentence given) could occur. However, it is not even the life-sentence, but 36 years in jail. I cannot stop help myself being terrified by the fact that the rest of the crew members, as this (student victim's) mother has already said, received sentences as low as five-years in jail. I want to say 'sorry' to the children, and I want to promise them that we will tighten our resolve until we reveal the truth at the Court of Appeal through a Special Investigative Committee."

6. Journalists at news conference

7. Wide of news conference

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Ko Young-hee, Mother of Danwon High School student victim Choi Jin-hyuk:

"All my daily life and future has been crushed forever since the 16th of April. All mothers' lives have disappeared in such a way. Just five-years in jail to pay for what they did? Now, the Sewol Ferry Investigation Committee will be formed. We will collect every bit of evidence we have and send it to the Court of Appeal. We will do anything to make the crew members, who abandoned our children, escaped, ran away, and thought of only their lives, pay for their crimes accordingly."

9. Close of two female family members

10. Ko talking at news conference

11. Journalists at news conference

12. End of news conference

A sightseeing picnic ended in tragedy at Yoju, fifty miles south of Seoul, when an overloaded ferry capsized only ten yards from its landing berth. Scenes of the wreckage and the many coffins in the temproary mortuary.

1. ws remains of boat

2. ws man steps onto sunken hull

3. vs coffins in morgue, women and men crying over coffins

4. mcu mother led away sobbing, apn to man crying over coffin

5. ws sobbing woman on open coffin

6. ms men lift and carry coffin

7. vs coffins on loaded onto trucks

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Parents of Danwon High school students who died when a ferry sank off South Korea's southern coast gathered at Paengmok Port in Jindo on Thursday, to condemn the South Korean government for not doing more to save their children.

The parents, who arrived in buses from Ansan, where Danwon High school is located, gathered in front of a tent being used as the government situation room.

They shouted criticisms against the South Korean government for not being able to rescue any more missing passengers than the 174 passengers who were rescued on the first day.

After a short gathering they marched up and down the port, chanting their children's names and carrying various signs written in Korean condemning the government.

They ended the march by shouting out their children's names.

Two weeks after the ferry sank off South Korea's southern coast, 219 have now been confirmed dead, according to the South Korean coast guard.

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1. Wide of parents of deceased Danwon High school students gathering at Paengmok Port in Jindo

2. Various of parents shouting

3. Man facing crowd, shouting and waving fist

4. Zoom in to parents starting to march up and down the port

5. Various of parents marching with placards and chanting

6. Woman crying

7. Mid of parents marching and chanting

8. Close of sign reading: (Korean) "Why is my child in the sea when he should at school?"

9. Wide of parents shouting out their children's names

Viva Los Dodgers is a pre-game festival held at every Sunday home game for the Dodgers, and is free with a ticket to the day's game.

Pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu made an autograph signing appearance at the event on Sunday, to raise money for the survivors and the families of those who lost their lives in the April 16th Sewol ferry sinking in South Korea.

The Sewol was carrying 476 people, mostly secondary school students from Danwon High School, who were travelling from Inchen to Jeju when it capsized.

There are ongoing rescue efforts by the South Korean government, the United States Navy and civilian groups and individuals.

On Friday, Ryu pledged to make a $100,000 donation to his HJ 99 Foundation to help those affected by the ferry disaster.

The left handed South Korean pitcher established the HJ 99 Foundation, a non-profit, organized to build baseball fields for kids in Korea.

Los Angeles, California, USA 20 April 2014

1. 00:00 Medium entrance banner at Dodger Stadium "Viva Los Dodgers"

2. 00:03 Medium fans at "Viva Los Dodgers"

3. 00:08 Medium fans waiting in line for autographs.

4. 00:13 Medium Hyun-Jin Ryu arrival.

5. 00:20 Close Hyun-Jin Ryu signing autograph.

6. 00:35 SOUNDBITE (Korean) Hyun-Jin Ryu/South Korean pitcher for L.A. Dodgers speaking about his charity foundation HJ 99:

"It's a foundation I created last year with some people. It was set up to do good things, obviously for something like today, it is one of those things."

7. 00:50 Close Hyun-Jin Ryu autograph.

8. 01:08 Close young fan handing Ryu ball for autograph.

9. 01:16 SOUNDBITE (Korean) Hyu-Jin Ryu/South Korean pitcher for L.A. Dodgers speaking of how ferry incident has affected him:

"I can't really say personally how it affected me. It definitely hurts my heart to know that so many people are affected by it. I just hope the outcome could be a little bit positive."

10. Close of Hyun-Jin Ryu signing Dodgers cap.

11. 01:33 SOUNDBITE (Korean) Hyu-Jin Ryu/South Korean pitcher for L.A. Dodgers speaking on helping survivors for South Korean ferry:

"It's not a lot. It is very little that I can do. It is a privilege that I can do what I can to help them out there. It just gives them a little strength, and that's all I can do."

12. 01:50 Close Hyu-Jin Ryu signing autograph.

13. 02:00 SOUNDBITE (Korean) Hyu-Jin Ryu/South Korean pitcher for L.A. Dodgers on what he know about South Korean ferry incident:

"I know pretty much what is going on from the media reports, I have been following it very closely."

14. 02:14 Hyu-Jin Ryu signing autograph.

15. 02:24 SOUNDBITE (Korean) Hyu-Jin Ryu/South Korean pitcher for L.A. Dodgers on his reaction to the South Korean ferry incident:

"What can I say? It is just a very unfortunate incident. All I can ask for is things like this are avoided in the future."

16. 02:35 Medium of L.A. Dodger fan contributing money to charity for ferry survivors.

17. 02:39 SOUNDBITE (Korean/English spoken from translator) Hyu-Jin Ryu/South Korean pitcher for L.A. Dodgers on his thoughts on second season with the L.A. Dodgers:

"I'll address baseball questions at a later time."

18. 02:52 Close Hyu-Jin Ryu signing baseball for young fan.

19. 03:00 Close Hyu-Jin Ryu signing baseball.

20. 03:09 Close Hyu-Jin Ryu holding up plastic bottle filled with donations.

21. 03:18 Medium rack focus: "Dodgers Viva Los Dodgers"

Prosecutors investigating the sinking of South Korean ferry Sewol seized documents and recordings from a coast guard office in Mokpo on Monday.

The seizure is part of investigators' efforts to expand the probe into how the coast guard and other rescuers responded after learning the ferry was sinking.

A senior prosecutor said they would do the same at an emergency call service centre that received a call from a student on the ship reporting the sinking.

Prosecutors also plan to question officials from the company that maintained and inspected life rafts and safety facilities on the ferry.

The prosecutor said they will also focus their investigations on other factors that could have affected the ship's sinking, including cargo stowage and an earlier remodelling of the ship.

Divers on Monday renewed their search for more than 100 bodies still trapped in the ferry after weekend efforts were hindered by bad weather, strong currents and floating debris clogging the ship's rooms.

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1. Various of prosecutors entering coast guard office

2. Security outside office as prosecutors are inside

3. Prosecutors carrying boxes of documents out of office

4. Prosecutors putting boxes into car

5. Prosecutors getting into car

6. Cars leaving site

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Angry relatives of those still missing following South Korea's ferry disaster surrounded senior officials on Thursday and refused to let them leave a meeting until their demands for a speedy recovery of their loved ones' remains were met.

The families accused the authorities of lying to them about how the operation was progressing and told the officials they didn't have a grasp of details.

Frustration simmered throughout Thursday, the day the families had set as a deadline to find the bodies of those still missing.

Minister of Oceans and Fisheries, Lee Ju-young, and the Korean coast guard's chief Kim Seok-kyun and deputy chief Choi Sang-hwan were forced to sit down, surrounded by angry relatives.

Battling to be heard above the shouts of derision, Lee Ju-young said he had told the coast guard to work on the recovery mission "as if you are going to sacrifice yourself".

Relatives fear that with time running out, the remains of their loved ones will start to decompose, adding to their distress.

More than 170 bodies have been recovered, but around 130 remain somewhere within the sunken ship or the surrounding waters.

1. Wide zoom-in of one enraged female relative of missing passenger grabbing and pushing Lee Ju-young, Minister of Oceans and Fisheries

2. Wide of relatives shouting at officials

3. Mid of female relatives pushing and shouting at Lee Ju-young

4. Mid of female relatives shouting at the officials to answer

5. Mid of other female relatives crying

6. Close of Chief of Korean coast guard Kim Seok-kyun

7. Close of Lee Ju-young with his head bowed

8. Close of female relatives

9. Missing passenger's photo hanging on the neck of relative

10. Wide of angry relatives shouting at officials

11. Female relative UPSOUND (Korean) "You are evading the question," pan to Kim Seok-kyun

12. Close of female relatives

A commemorative ceremony was held in Ansan, South Korea on Sunday to mark the third anniversary of a ferry accident that killed more than 300 people.

Survivors and the families of the victims took part in the event at a group memorial altar, along with major presidential candidates.

Two weeks ago, the wreck of the ferry was finally raised and arrived at a port in Mokpo.

The Sewol ferry sank off the country's southwestern coast on 16 April 2014, killing 304 people, most of whom were students on a high school trip.

The incident touched off an outpouring of national grief and soul searching about long-ignored public safety and regulatory failures.

Ansan – 16 April 2017

1. Wide of memorial altar set up in tribute to Sewol ferry accident victims

2. Mid of incense altar and portraits of the deceased

3. Family of victim crying

4. Close of family of victim crying

5. Close of flower

6. Medium of people with flowers

7. Close of man paying silent tribute

8. Mid of incense altar and people laying down flowers

9. Close of flowers

10. Medium of incense altar with flowers

11. Pan of memorial ceremony

12. Various of family of victims crying

13. Jeon Myung-sun, father of Sewol victim Chan-ho, entering podium

14. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Jeon Myung-sun, father of Sewol victim Jeon Chan-ho:

"Even in the process of salvaging Sewol ferry and investigating the hull, the government and the oceans and fisheries ministry still hold and wield power. The central government is still forcing us to stay still. Families of the victims who had to send away 304 victims and the nation's people who watched live the Sewol Ferry accident cannot stay still. We have to bring back the victims who have not returned yet, and start a thorough investigation (on the accident)."

15. Various of choir

16. Close of placard reading: (Korean) "victims of Sewol Ferry accident, leave the painful sea and rest in peace"

17. Wide of memorial ceremony

Frustrated relatives of those on sunken ferry Sewol on Friday allowed South Korean officials to leave a tent at a port on the island of Jindo where they had been held overnight.

The relatives, angry over the pace of the rescue mission, staged a marathon confrontation with the officials on Thursday night, surrounding them in a standoff that lasted into Friday morning.

The frustrated families have been waiting for more than a week on the island for word of their loved ones.

On Friday morning, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Lee Ju-young, was seen still sitting on the floor of the tent where he had spent the night despite being allowed to leave.

The tent is where officials post information about the newly recovered dead.

Lee, coast guard chief Kim Seok-kyun and deputy chief Choi Sang-hwan were crowded by dozens on Thursday as the officials sat on the ground and tried to explain the search efforts.

Relatives were also angry about the pace of divers who have recovered 183 bodies so far but may have nearly 120 left to find in the dark rooms of the submerged vessel.

The ferry sank April 16 on its way from Incheon port to the southern tourist island of Jeju.

More than 80 percent of the 302 dead and missing are students from a single high school in Ansan, south of Seoul.

Eleven crew members, including the captain, have been arrested on suspicion of negligence and abandoning people in need.

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1. Top shot of tents on pier at Paengmok port

2. Boat on water

3. Various of relatives of missing passengers standing outside tent

4. Various of Lee Ju-young, Oceans and Fisheries minister, inside tent

5. Various of man looking at messages of condolence left on message board

6. Tilt down of messages on board

7. Police vessel arriving in port

8. Various of emergency workers moving recovered body in body bag on deck of boat

9. Mid of South Korean flag

10. Ambulance driving away

11. Man kneeling in water, praying with paper offering

12. Paper offering floating in water

13. Various of Buddhist monk ringing bell and chanting mantra

14. Various of man praying next to Buddhist monk

A growing number of South Koreans are joining a "yellow ribbon" campaign, to show their support for families still waiting for news of their loved ones who were on the ferry that sank on April 16.

To ease national grief, college students are encouraging people to wear yellow ribbons, a custom borrowed from the US to express hope that the missing will return, and change their online profile pictures to include yellow ribbons to support victims.

The campaign was started by a group of around 30 university students - members of a student organisation from various campuses called "Autonomous, Alter, Active Life Together" (ALT) - and swiftly spread across the country.

"The original meaning of the yellow ribbon is the wish for a safe return," said Lee Min-joo, a member of ALT.

South Korea mourns one of its worst ever disasters, a ferry sinking off the southwestern coast near Jindo Island, that will likely result in the death of more than 300 people, most of them high school children.

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Ansan - 24 April 2014

1. Wide of yellow ribbons outside Danwon High School, where a majority of Sewol ferry passengers were from

2. Close-up of yellow ribbons

3. Medium of yellow ribbons on main gate of Danwon High School

Seoul - 24 April 2014

4. Medium of yellow ribbons in downtown Seoul

5. Medium South Koreans writing message on ribbons by Cheonggye stream

6. Close-up of woman's hand writing message on ribbon

7. Close-up and zoom-out of yellow ribbon being tied

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Yang Hee-soo, 49, office worker:

"(The passengers on the ferry) must be very scared and cold and suffering, but (I hung the ribbon) in the hope that they will forget it quickly and be in peace."

9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Yang Dong-yoon, 54, banker

"As a South Korean citizen, because I could not prevent the deaths of such young students and great teachers, I hung that yellow ribbon with a very heavy heart."

10. Medium reverse shot of a woman tying a ribbon

11. Close-up of various yellow ribbons with messages such as: (Korean) "Return in peace" and "Sorry" and "I love you"

12. Medium of Lee Min-joo, member of the student group that began the yellow ribbon campaign

13. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Min-joo, member of group which began yellow ribbon campaign:

"Yes, the original meaning of the yellow ribbon is the wish for a safe return. I hope that we can participate (in this campaign) in that spirit, and be a true comfort to the victims and share in their sorrow."

14. Close-up of a cell-phone showing profile pictures, which have been changed to yellow ribbon image

15. Medium of two women looking at their cell-phones

16. Close-up of yellow ribbon image shown on cell-phone screen; beneath ribbon is written: (Korean) "May one small move make a big miracle"

17. Medium of woman tying yellow ribbon

18. Wide of Cheonggye stream with string of yellow ribbons on both sides

South Korean prosecutors on Monday demanded the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that sank earlier this year, killing more than 300 people.

They blamed his negligence and failure to rescue passengers in need for the massive loss of life, a court official and news reports said.

Prosecutors also requested life sentences for three other key crew members during a trial at the Gwangju District Court in southern South Korea, a court official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorised to speak to the media about the sentence requests.

He said prosecutors asked for sentences of up to 30 years for 11 other crew members.

Some relatives of the victims who were present in court on Monday were not happy with the proceedings so far, however.

"We expect at least four crew members to receive death penalties including Kang Won-sik (the first mate) and the chief engineer. However, this is totally nonsense," said Kim Ki-woong, whose son was killed in the disaster.

Kim added that the truth about the disaster was not made clear and that "crew members are just trying to make excuses."

The 15 crew members tasked with the ship's navigation were among the first people rescued from the ship when it began badly listing, a source of the fierce public anger directed at them.

Most of those who died in the disaster were students from a single high school who were en route from Incheon, west of Seoul, to the resort island of Jeju on April 16.

Captain Lee Joon-seok and the three key crew members - a first mate, a second mate and the chief engineer - were indicted in May on homicide charges.

Eleven other crew members were indicted on less serious charges.

Court officials have said the court will issue verdicts on the 15 crew members in November.

The death penalty is the maximum legal sentence in South Korea, but the country has a de facto moratorium on capital punishment and has not executed anyone since December 1997.

South Korean courts, however, still occasionally issue death sentences.

The sinking, one of South Korea's deadliest disasters in decades, caused nationwide grief and fury, with authorities blaming overloading of cargo, improper storage, untimely rescue efforts and other negligence for the incident.

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Gwangju - 27 October 2014

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1. Family members of student victims from the Sewol ferry disaster leaving Gwangju District Court

2. Various of family members getting on to bus

3. Family members sitting in bus

4. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Kim Ki-woong, Victim's father:

"We expect at least four crew members to receive death penalties including Kang Won-sik (the first mate) and the chief engineer. However, this is totally nonsense. The truth of (the disaster) is not even revealed; it (the last trial) was just a joke."

(Reporter question: are you saying the level of the sentence from the prosecutors is too low?"

"It is not only too low, but the truth is also not completely revealed. Crew members are just trying to make excuses."

5. Sign reading (Korean) " Bus for the Sewol ferry victims' families"

6. Family members on bus

7. Family members getting on to bus

8. Door on bus closes

9. Various of bus driving off

Students who survived South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster were continuing their witness testimonies on Tuesday at the Ansan branch of the Suwon District Court.

On Monday students had testified that they were repeatedly ordered by loudspeaker to stay in the sinking ship, but eventually helped each other flee after their cabins flooded.

The six girls spoke at a court session for 15 crew members responsible for the ship's navigation who face charges of negligence and failing to perform their duties to rescue passengers, with four of them facing homicide charges.

The students from Danwon High School near Seoul revealed how chaotic the scene on the ferry was, saying they wore life jackets and were helped by friends to float out and leave flooded rooms.

One of them said she saw some schoolmates swept away by the waters.

The April 16 sinking left more than 300 people dead or missing, most of them Danwon students who were travelling to the southern island of Jeju for a school trip.

A total of 325 Danwon students were aboard the ship but only 75 survived, according to local officials.

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1. Bus carrying Danwon High School students pulling up to Ansan Branch Court for the second day of testimony in the Sewol ferry disaster trial

2. Students getting off of bus

3. Police officers secure the path as students enter court

4. Students getting off bus

5. Police in front of court entrance

6. Doors to court closing

7. Sign that reads (Korean) "Court"

8. Exterior of Ansan court

The confirmed death toll from South Korea's ferry disaster rose past 50 on Sunday as divers finally found a way inside the sunken vessel, quickly discovering more than a dozen bodies in what almost certainly is just the beginning of a massive and grim recovery effort.

About 250 people are still missing from the ship, the vast majority of them high school students who had been on a holiday trip.

The ferry, Sewol, sank Wednesday off South Korea's southern coast, but it took days for divers to get in because of strong currents and bad visibility due to foul weather.

Beginning late Saturday, when divers broke a window, and continuing into Sunday, multiple teams of divers have found various routes into the ferry, discovering bodies in different spots, a coast guard official Koh Myung-seok said at a briefing.

Thirteen bodies have been found in the ship, while six other bodies were found floating outside Sunday, bringing the official death toll to 52, the coast guard said.

Divers, who once pumped air into the ship in the slim hope that survivors were inside, have yet to find anyone alive there.

1. Various of Korean Coast Guards on Coast Guard boat examining three bodies in body bags recovered from the sea at the site of the sinking of the Sewol ferry

2. Pan Coast Guard officer walking on the boat towards the direction where bodies are being examined

3. Close up body bags

4. Wide Korean Navy boat searching in the area where the ship Seowl sank

5. Wide rescue operation

6. Wide coast guards and other rescue units searching the area where ship sank

7. Wide Korean special unit UDT Seal searching the area

8. Various of rescue units searching

9. Mid Coast guards loading a recovered body onto a Korean police boat

10. Wide Korean Coast Guards boat next to Police boat

11. Military helicopter flying over the area of the recovery mission

12. Wide crane

13. Close crane

14. Coast guards on boat

A French judge has refused a request to free the daughter of a South Korean tycoon who is thought to be the owner of a ferry that sank in April, leaving more than 300 people dead or missing.

French police arrested Yoo Somena on May 27 an international arrest warrant on suspicion of involvement in embezzling 8 million US dollars between 2004 and 2013.

She is the daughter of Yoo Byung-eun, a mysterious billionaire who South Korean authorities believe was the owner of the Sewol ferry.

The judge said on Wednesday that Yoo Somena, who is facing extradition to South Korea, might flee France where she has been resident since the beginning of 2013.

He noted that Yoo's brother, who also lived in France, disappeared in April.

Yoo's lawyer, said that she might get an "unfair trial" if she is extradited to South Korea.

"South Korean authorities will mistreat Madame Yoo the moment she steps foot in a Korean trial," Maisonneuve said.

He added that Yoo feels she is a victim of harassment by South Korean authorities.

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1. Exterior of Palais de Justice

2. Interior of Palais de Justice

3. Sign reading (French) "Appeals Court"

4. Patrick Maisonneuve, Yoo Somena's lawyer, walking towards media

5. Various of courtroom sketch of Yoo Somena during hearing, stuck on wall

6. SOUNDBITE: (French) Patrick Maisonneuve, Yoo Somena's lawyer:

"What the president of the court clearly told her: Madame, your father, your brothers are said to be on the run so consequently, in line with that, you should remain in detention, even though she has all the required guarantees for France."

7. Courtroom sketch

8. SOUNDBITE: (French) Patrick Maisonneuve, Yoo Somena's lawyer:

"We don't really understand what she is being blamed for or in any case in as far as embezzlement is concerned, we submitted documents related to that claim. The court has them. This will probably not be of interest to the South Korean authorities because the South Korean authorities are looking for those responsible for this tragic ferry accident."

9. Close up of courtroom sketch

10. SOUNDBITE: (French) Patrick Maisonneuve, Yoo Somena's lawyer:

"She feels she is the victim of harassment by South Korean authorities. This is why she doesn't want to go to South Korea, that she will not accept being extradited and I can assure you we will do everything possible, even go to the European Court of Justice (to prevent it)."

11. Maisonneuve talking to media

12. SOUNDBITE: (French) Patrick Maisonneuve, Yoo Somena's lawyer:

"There is no guarantee that in South Korea she could get a fair trial. No guarantees today. And I think that she might even get an unfair trial. I am saying this openly, you can relay it: South Korean authorities will mistreat Madame Yoo the moment she steps foot in a Korean trial."

13. Maisonneuve leaving

South Korea's state-run forensic lab said on Friday it had failed to find why a fugitive billionaire, blamed for April's Sewol ferry disaster, had died.

Police said earlier this week that a badly decomposed body found in rural South Korea last month had been identified as that of Yoo Byung-eun.

Authorities had been looking for the 73-year-old, believing he owned the sunken ferry, and that his alleged corruption may have contributed to the disaster.

The state-run National Forensic Service said on Friday that Yoo's body was too badly decayed to determine whether he died of disease.

April's disaster, the worst in South Korea in decades, left more than 300 people dead or missing, mostly high school students.

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1. Seo Joong-seok, Director General of the National Forensic Service, standing at lectern to announce results of an investigation into the death of Yoo Byung-eun, fugitive owner of the Sewol ferry

2. Wide of the auditorium

3. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Seo Joong-seok, Director General of the National Forensic Service (NFS):

"In summarising the investigation result, the dead body found in Suncheon can be confirmed as Yoo Byung-eun. Even though we tried to investigate various causes of his death, the NFS could not find out the exact cause of Yoo's death under the given circumstances."

4. Mid of journalists

5. Close of slide that shows Yoo's decayed body

6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Baek Seung-kyeong, Head of Drug, Poison, and Chemical Department at the NFS:

"This is a summarisation of the investigation result from the autopsy room. No unusual toxic substances were found in the liver-lung muscle, but a bit of alcoholic substance was found. However, it was below the general concentration level that can be found in ordinary decaying tissue."

7. Mid of journalists

8. Mid of the auditorium

9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Han-young, Head of Forensic Medicine at the NFS:

"We, forensic scientists, say it is absolutely possible that the body can be reduced to skeleton, more precisely decomposed, in such a short period of time. Therefore it can be said that this matter should not be a controversy even among yourselves."

10. Mid of journalists

11. Wide of the auditorium

Relatives of the missing passengers of the Sewol ship waited at a gymnasium on the South Korean island of Jindo on Thursday for news of their loved ones.

The island is close to where the ferry sank.

Fourteen people, including a female crew member, at least five students and two teachers, were confirmed dead by coast guard officials on Thursday night.

But the toll was expected to jump amid fears that more than 280 missing passengers - many high school students - were dead.

Coast guard officials put the number of survivors on Thursday at 179.

A team of volunteers from South Korea's Post Disaster Psychosocial Care Centre were working with relatives at the gymnasium.

The team's president Choi Tae-san said that the families felt "very powerless" because there was nothing practical they could do to help in the search.

The Sewol, a 146-metre (480-foot) vessel that can hold more than 900 people, set sail on Tuesday from Incheon, in northwestern South Korea, on an overnight, 14-hour journey to the tourist island of Jeju.

The ferry was three hours from its destination on Wednesday when it sent a distress call after it began listing to one side, according to the Ministry of Security and Public Administration.

1. Family member of a missing passenger praying

2. Various of family members in gymnasium

3. Close-up of lights

4. Wide of the gymnasium acting as shelter for relatives

5. President of the South Korean Post-Disaster Psychosocial Care Centre Association Choi Tae-san with family members

6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Choi Tae-san, 55, President of Korean Post-Disaster Psychosocial Care Centre Association

"We and the nation cannot practically do anything to help the people on board which is very sad. Because of this especially, the parents of the missing students on board feel very powerless."

7. Wide of families

8. Close-up of child

9. Wide of relatives watching news outside the gymnasium

10. Close-up of TV screen

11. Wide of exterior of Jindo Gymnasium where the family members of the missing passengers are staying ++NIGHT SHOT++