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

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

South Korea's central bank cut its key interest rate for the first time in 15 months on Thursday, providing support to an economy dragged down by the shock of a ferry sinking that killed hundreds of teenagers.

The Bank of Korea lowered its policy rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.25 percent.

The bank had kept it unchanged since a rate cut in May 2013.

Analysts had predicted the bank to lower borrowing costs to boost consumer spending, which turned negative due to the shock of the Sewol ferry disaster earlier this year.

Last month, the bank cut this year's growth forecast for Asia's fourth-largest economy to 3.8 percent from 4.0 percent.

Weak domestic spending has been a source of concern.

South Korea's new finance minister unveiled stimulus measures in July to encourage spending by consumers and companies.

The bank was expected to aid the government's stimulus moves as low inflationary pressure gives room for easing.

The sinking in April of the Sewol ferry killed 294 people and left 10 missing, mostly teenagers on a school trip, causing a national outpouring of grief.

Consumer spending shrank in the April-June quarter, hitting its lowest in nearly three years.

1. Bank of Korea governor Lee Ju-yeol chairing monthly monetary policy meeting

2. Lee bangs gavel at start of meeting

3. Various of meeting

4. Lee walking into media briefing room

5. Tilt up of Bank of Korea sign to Lee speaking during briefing

6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Ju-yeol, Governor of Bank of Korea:

"Today, at the Bank of Korea monetary policy meeting, a monetary policy has been adapted to lower the base interest rate from 2.50 percent to 2.25 percent."

7. Cutaway

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Ju-yeol, Governor of Bank of Korea:

"The economic recovery of the US has been on the rise. However, in the European areas, economic recovery continues to show a weakened presence. In the case of newly emerged markets: in China, the flow of economic recovery has continued, but in some nations the economic activity has been in a continual slump, so differences by country have appeared. In the international stock market, because of the influence of geopolitical risks, interest rates and stock prices have fallen, the US dollar has strengthened, and there has been an increase in fluctuation."

9. Wide of Lee giving briefing

South Korean prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300 people, according to a news report on Monday.

Yonhap news agency reported that prosecutors also requested that a district court issue life sentences to three other key crew members tasked with navigating the ship on charges that they were negligent and failed to protect passengers when the ferry was sinking on April 16.

The crew members appeared before a court in Gwangju on Monday, with relatives of the victims gathered outside, pressing their call for a maximum punishment.

The captain of the Sewol and three other crew members have been indicted on murder charges alleging they were negligent and failed to protect passengers in need when the ferry was sinking.

Most of the dead were high school students who were travelling to a resort island for a school trip.

The 15 crew members who survived the disaster were among the first groups of people to flee the sinking vessel.

In their defence, the crew members have previously claimed that after evacuating the ship they stayed with the Coast Guard and helped to rescue the passengers.

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1. Parents of victims of the Sewol ferry disaster and members of the "Sewol Ferry Disaster Gwangju Citizen Committee", which supports the victims' families, gathered outside Gwangju District Court

2. Various of two mothers of student victims at gathering

3. Wide of gathering

4. Close of mother of student victim crying and wiping her eye

5. Two mothers of student victims at gathering

6. Pan of gathering

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Lim Young-ae, mother of a student victim of the Sewol ferry disaster:

"As a parent, I have to know why my child died, by revealing the truth (of the disaster). To appease my child's unfair death by revealing the truth, we parents want these crew members to get the maximum punishment."

8. Wide of gathering

9. Mothers raising fists during gathering

Surviving students of the Sewol ferry disaster on Wednesday attended a memorial service for classmates who died after the passenger ferry sank off the coast of South Korea.

Wearing white shirts and yellow ribbons - which became a symbol hope during the tragedy - the survivors grieved openly as they passed a wall of flowers on display for their classmates at a memorial in Ansan, a city near Seoul.

Students from Ansan's Danwon High School made up more than 80 percent of the dead and missing; they had been on their way to the southern tourist island of Jeju.

The director of the hospital where survivors were treated said those discharged on Wednesday showed no signs of serious symptoms but would be monitored on an ongoing basis.

In Jindo, meanwhile, the prime minister met experts to reassess the situation and to "reflect once again on whether there may be improvements or new approaches to be made".

Chung Hong-won offered his resignation over the government's handling of the sinking on Sunday, blaming "deep-rooted evils" in society for the tragedy.

Family members of those killed have dismissed as insincere President Park Geun-hye's apology for the government's handling of the disaster.

Two weeks after the ferry sank off South Korea's southern coast, divers have recovered 212 bodies from the wreckage.

They fought strong currents and floating debris inside the ship on Wednesday as they searched for 90 passengers still missing.

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Ansan

1. Various of Sewol ferry disaster survivors, in white shirts, grieving for classmates who died

2. Various of students arriving at memorial service

3. Various of students walking past flowers

4. Wide of memorial service

5. Ansan university hospital director Dr Cha Sang-hoon entering news conference

6. Wide of news conference

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Dr Cha Sang-hoon, Ansan university hospital director:

"In the case of the students who are being discharged, according to the examination results of the the medical team, there needs to be continued observation of any possible future symptoms that may appear. However, it is our judgement that the majority of the students do not currently show any serious symptoms that may lead to dangerous after-effects in the short-term. Our hospital will proceed with the treatment of the students and their guardians even after their discharge, and this will take place along with the school's psychiatric support programme."

8. Wide of news conference

Jindo

9. South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won entering news conference

10. Cutaway of various experts at meeting

11. Cutaway of South Korean officials at meeting

12. Wide of news conference

13. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Chung Hong-won, South Korean Prime Minister:

"We have invited every one of you experts to this table to recap the situation and to reflect once again on whether there may be improvements or new approaches to be made. We felt there is a necessity to gather wisdom from experts in each sector."

14. Various of Chung at news conference

South Korean police continued to surround a church compound in Anseong on Thursday, in search of fugitive billionaire businessman, Yoo Byung-eun, believed to be involved in the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April.

Authorities believe Yoo owns the ship, and that his alleged corruption may have contributed to the disaster that left more than 300 people dead of missing.

Police and prosecutors have been after Yoo for weeks and are offering a 500-thousand US dollar reward for information surrounding his whereabouts.

The 73-year-old is a member of a group called the Evangelical Baptist Church, which critics say is a cult.

On Wednesday about 5,000 police officers, some wearing helmets and armed with plastic shields, raided the group's compound in Anseong, just south of Seoul, officers said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

Four church members were detained for allegedly providing shelter to Yoo or helping him flee, police said.

Another church member was detained for allegedly trying to obstruct the raid.

It was not clear whether Yoo was at the compound at the time of the raid.

The compound, the size of about 30 football fields, is considered the church's headquarters and thousands of members gather there for services on weekends.

The area contains ranches, fields, a fish farm and an auditorium that can house up to 5,000 people, according to media reports.

Yoo, head of the now-defunct predecessor of the ferry's current operator, Chonghaejin, allegedly still controls the company through a complex web of holding companies in which his children and close associates are large shareholders.

The government has offered a 100-thousand US dollar bounty for Yoo's eldest son, and one of his daughters was arrested in France late last month.

At a news conference in Seoul, South Korean Defence Ministry Spokesman Kim Min-seok said the troops patrolling coastal waters were "keeping a strict watch" on vessels coming in and out of harbours, in case Yoo tries to escape.

The sinking, one of South Korea's deadliest disasters in decades, has caused an outpouring of national grief, and the country is undergoing national soul searching about public safety.

Nearly two months on, 292 bodies have been recovered, mostly students from a high school near Seoul, and 12 people are still missing.

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Anseong, South Korea

1. Various of the highway near Geumsoowon, the headquarters of the Evangelical Baptist Church (so-called Salvation Sect)

2. Mid of Geumsoowon's front gate with police forming barricade

3. Close of police barricade

4. Various of police walking into Geumsoowon

5. Various of police coming out of Geumsoowon

6. Mid of police and reporters inside Geumsoowon

7. Wide of Geumsoowon's front gate

Seoul, South Korea

8. Mid of South Korean Defence Ministry Spokesman Kim Min-seok entering the news briefing

9. Wide of news conference

10. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Min-seok, South Korean Defence Ministry Spokesman:

"Troops in charge of our coasts such as the southern coast and the western coast, are continuously checking for illegal migrants. They are especially keeping a strict watch on those coming in at night. Since there is also a possibility of Yoo Byung-eun being smuggled out at the same time, they are strengthening their guards and focusing on stowaways."

11. Medium of ministry officials

12. Wide of news conference

South Korea's central bank lowered its key interest rate to a record low on Wednesday in a further attempt to bolster the country's fragile economic recovery.

The Bank of Korea trimmed the key rate by a quarter of a percentage point to two percent for October.

It was the second rate cut this year after the central bank lowered lending costs in August following the deadly ferry disaster, the shock of which dented retail sales and other spending.

The bank on Wednesday also downgraded its growth forecasts for South Korea's economy, Asia's fourth-largest.

It said the economy would likely expand 3.5 percent this year, not 3.8 percent it forecast three months earlier, citing slower-than-expected improvements in capital expenditure and consumer spending.

Next year, South Korea's economy is expected to grow 3.9 percent, instead of four percent.

Analysts expected the rate cut as South Korea's finance minister had said the economic recovery was fragile.

The weak yen and a slow recovery of capital spending were also expected to dent the recovery of the export-driven economy.

Policymakers also saw weak sentiment among economic players as a risk to the economy.

In February 2009, the bank lowered its policy interest rate to 2 percent in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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Seoul - 15 October 2014

1. Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju-yeol walking into BoK's monthly monetary policy meeting

2. Wide of meeting

3. Lee hitting the gravel to indicate the start of the meeting

4. Wide of meeting

5. Lee entering news conference

6. Wide of news conference

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Ju-yeol, Governor, Bank of Korea:

"The monetary policy committee of the Bank of Korea decided today to lower the base rate from 2.25 percent to two percent."

8. Journalists at news conference

9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Ju-yeol, Governor, Bank of Korea:

"The committee will conduct monetary policy so as to maintain price stability over a medium-term horizon and pay greater attention to financial stability. In this process, it will closely monitor external risk factors, such as the shift in the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy stance, as well as the trends of household debt and of capital flows."

10. Shin Dong-joon, director and chief strategist of the Asset Research Department at Hana Daetoo Securities

11. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Shin Dong-joon, Director and Chief Strategist, Asset Research Department at Hana Daetoo Securities:

"Due to concerns that the overall global economy will slow down, it will be difficult for the South Korean economy to immediately get better because of the Bank of Korea's decision to lower the base interest rate. The South Korean government is expanding its fiscal policies, and overseas markets are in the exchange rate war by devaluating currencies. So these will allow us to combine policies supporting domestic consumptions and policies devaluating our currencies in the exchange market. I believe it will also lead to main agents' psychological stability."

12. Various of people shopping on Myeongdong street

13. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Kyeong-mi, Company employee:

"Prices are already very high, so a product which used to be KRW100,000 now costs KRW150,000, so I worry a bit when I go grocery shopping."

14. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Lim Duk-soon, President, Coldwell Banker Commercial:

"Anyhow, as the base interest rate decreases, real estate transactions are more active, and an increasing number of people are trying to purchase buildings and shopping arcades. As the base interest rate is now lower, I think the real estate business will be more active."

15. Various of pedestrians

The daughter of a South Korean fugitive businessman believed linked to a deadly April ferry disaster must stay in a French jail pending a decision on whether she is extradited, a court said on Wednesday.

Yoo Somena, daughter of billionaire Yoo Byung-eun, is facing extradition to South Korea based on suspicions of embezzling eight (m) million US dollars between 2004 and 2013.

She was detained on 27 May in Paris on an international warrant, but asked to be released pending the extradition decision on 17 September.

A Paris judge on Wednesday rejected the request, arguing that she could flee the country.

South Korean authorities are seeking to arrest Yoo Byung-eun, who is accused of tax evasion, embezzlement and professional negligence.

His family owns the parent company of the Sewol ferry that sank on 16 April, leaving more than 300 people dead or missing.

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July 9, 2014

1. Wide interior of Palais de Justice

2. Sign reading (French) "Appeals Court"

3. Various of Patrick Maisonneuve, lawyer representing Yoo Somena, daughter of billionaire Yoo Byung-eun, who is facing extradition to South Korea

4. Maisonneuve entering courtroom

5. Maisonneuve in court

FILE: 11 June 2014

6. Various of courtroom sketch of Yoo Somena during hearing

July 9, 2014

7. Maisonneuve walking outside court room

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

"The judges believe she could flee France and thus escape the French judicial process, and as a result believe that she should stay in French jail. Obviously I do not share this vision, as Mrs Yoo works here, has a house here, and a son here, that she has been here for more than a year, and has (in this country) the necessary guarantees."

9. Cutaway of photographer

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

"She wants to defend her case because she knows that in South Korea she wouldn't have a fair trial. She is very conscious of that and, by the way, no South Korean lawyer has accepted to defend her - lawyers would have to be appointed to her case, but she doesn't have the guarantee of a fair trial in South Korea, and it is for that reason that we will reject the request for extradition."

11. Maisonneuve walking away

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Ansan - 16 April 2015

1. Relatives of Sewol ferry disaster victims and others entering the ceremonial ground in front of memorial stage

2. Various of relatives

3. Representative of the victims' families on stage

4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Yoo Kyung-geun, spokesman for the victims' families:

"We decided to cancel the official memorial ceremony after we determined that all the citizens of South Korea including the "4.16 family" (group representing the relatives of the victims) are not worthy of commemorating the 295 victims and 9 missing students."

5. Empty seats reserved for government officials

6. Various of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's empty seat

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Sang-gil, father of Sewol ferry victim Kim Seung-hyuk:

"(The government should) swiftly accommodate our message and quickly give answers so that the truth is revealed."

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Mi-hyun, mother of Sewol ferry victim Park Sung-bin:

"Even after one year, everything stays the same. As helpless parents, it is terrifying to see our children dying, but at least we have to know why they died. We asked (the government) to find out the reason, but it is not being done."

9. Various of relatives hugging

10. Interior of memorial

11. Photos of victims on wall

12. Pan from civil organisation holding placards to the memorial area

STORYLINE

Angry relatives of passengers who drowned in the Sewol ferry disaster cancelled a memorial service in Ansan on Thursday, in protest against President Park Geun-hye's absence from the event.

More than 300 people died, mostly high school pupils, when the Sewol sank in cold waters off the south-western South Korean coast exactly one year ago.

The relatives expressed their anger over Park not visiting the memorial service even though they had set aside a chair for her and not providing a firm commitment for a deeper investigation into what they say is government responsibility for the sinking and botched rescue.

The families also claimed that Park should have delivered a more detailed plan for salvaging the ship during a speech earlier in the day, according to Pil Kyu Hwang, a lawyer representing the families.

Park made her speech during a visit to the small port near the site of the sinking to offer her condolences to the bereaved relatives.

Most, however, refused to meet her, in protest of the government's handling of the sinking, and had already left the port.

Also Thursday, South Korean lawmakers adopted a resolution urging the government to salvage the ferry.

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Ansan - 12 April 2015

1. Sewol ferry accident survivor Yang Jeong-won in her old classroom

2. Yang looking at a photo on her mobile of her friends

3. Yang's phone chain shaped in a yellow ribbon, symbolising hope for Sewol victims to return alive

4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Yang Jeong-won, Sewol ferry disaster survivor: ++BACK FACING TO CAMERA++

"Even when all of us go out for a gym class, there are only a dozen. I wonder if some students are still in the classroom but no, that's all we have now."

5. Yang's yellow bracelet bearing 20140416, the day the incident happened

6. Classroom window with various condolence letters from other students in foreground, Yang with her head on a desk in background

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Yang Jeong-won, Sewol ferry disaster survivor: ++BACK FACING TO CAMERA++

"We (the surviving students) say that it is nonsense that the crew members received 10 to 30 years of prison time. I think they should be punished as heavily as possible so that such incidents can never happen again. It would be very hard for me to forgive them."

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Ansan - 10 April 2015

8. Portrait of ferry disaster victim Jeong Hwi-bum on his old desk

9. Jeong's mother Shin Jumja wiping clean her son's photo

10. Flowers with a letter reading (Korean) "I love you Hwi-bum"

11. Shin cleaning flowers on her son's desk

12. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Shin Jumja, mother of ferry disaster victim Jeong Hwi-bum:

"I come here thinking that Hwi-bum is playing here, taking classes here, maybe even having quarrels with friends. I feel comfortable coming to his classroom. When I come here with other mothers, I just clean and leave. I am more of a person who suppresses emotions rather than expressing them. I'm shy about expressing my feelings. When I come here by myself, I write letters and attach them on the desk, and look at Hwi-bum's photos in my mobile phone."

13. Tilt down of Park Bona, older sister of 17-year-old ferry disaster victim Park Seong-ho, praying at a makeshift church

14. Tilt up of Park praying

15. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Park Bona, Brother Park Seong-ho died in ferry disaster:

"After I lost Seong-ho on April 16th, working at a big company, graduating from college, making a lot of money, dating all became meaningless to me. About getting married having a baby�I thought what does it even mean to get married in a country that can't even protect my brother and my (future) child?"

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Ansan - 8 April 2015

16. Memorial altar for Sewol disaster victims

17. Victim portraits on altar

18. Group of students walking past memorial altar

19. Poster on wall with yellow ribbon reading (Korean) "We are sorry. We love you. We will never forget you. We will make safe South Korea."

20. Wide of memorial altar

STORYLINE

As the first anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster approaches, many survivors and relatives of those who died on that fateful day are still struggling to come to terms with the pain and sadness they have suffered over the past 12 months.

Seventeen-year-old Yang Jeong-won was one of the lucky ones when the ship capsized on 16 April 2014, killing 304 people.

She was one of only 75 of the 325 second year students from Danwon High School on the ship at the time who survived.

Yang suffers deep anxiety however and often stops by her old classroom to reminisce about her classmates and a beloved teacher who are no longer with her.

Yang and her classmates threw a surprise birthday party for their teacher Kim Cho-won on the ferry, to celebrate her 26th birthday.

A few hours later, on the morning of 16 April 2014, the ferry listed, flipped upside down and sank.

Out of 35 people in the birthday photo she still keeps on her mobile phone, Yang was one of only eight to be rescued.

A year later, Yang is now in her final year of high school, studying design and animation, part of a class that shrank from more than 300 to just 88 students.

She is still searching for answers to why friends who could have been saved had to die, and is angry at the ferry operator.

The ship became top-heavy after a redesign added more cargo and boosted profit.

She blames the government for not regulating ferry operators.

Yang is also enraged by the ship's crew, which escaped when students were trapped because they were told to wait inside.

The tragic accident has also had a big impact on the relatives of those who died.

Shin Jumja, mother of 18-year-old victim Jeong Hwi-bum, comes by her son's school once or twice a week for her own ritual and spends time looking at the picture of her teenage son.

While Park Bona has stopped caring about the things most other 20-something South Koreans are focused on since her 17-year-old brother died in the disaster.

Park, who was majoring in Korean language and literature in college, is now preparing to transfer to another university.

Her aim in life now is to help society remember the dead teenagers and to make South Korea a safer place.

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Jindo - 15 April 2015

1. Model of the sunken ferry Sewol carried along in front of stage during memorial ceremony at Paengmok Port

2. Young men carrying model

3. Various of relatives of those who died in disaster seated, some crying

4. Pan of relatives of victims whose bodies are still missing, holding signs insisting the ferry is salvaged

5. Various of Shamanist performance

6. Audience watching performance

7. Jeon Myung-sun on stage speaking to crowd

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Jeon Myung-sun, representative of Sewol ferry victims' families:

"I am sorry Chan-ho and the other children. This father does not have anything to say to you. It so hurts and is terrifying that we have to say these words. Why do we have to be like this? Why? Please someone tell us the answers."

9. Various of audience listening to speech, some crying

10. Various of Shamanist performance

11. Procession on stage, wishing farewell to those who died

STORYLINE

Relatives of those who died in the Sewol ferry disaster attended a memorial service on Wednesday at Paengmok Port in Jindo, close to the site where the ferry went down.

Thursday marks the first anniversary of the sinking in which 304 were killed in waters off the southwestern coast of South Korea, many of them high school students.

Among the 476 passengers only 172 survived and the bodies of nine of the victims are still missing.

A model of the sunken ferry was carried on stage during the service, adorned with yellow ribbons with messages wishing farewell to those who died.

A traditional Korean shamanism performance also took place to mourn the victims and to send them to good places in their afterlife.

Korean shamanism has deep roots in folk beliefs from ancient times.

During the service, relatives of victims still missing also insisted the government expedite the ship salvage process so that the remains of their love ones can finally be recovered.

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1. Exterior of VIP lounge at Changi airport

2. Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda walking and shaking hands with airport official

3. Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win walking along corridor

4. Win shaking hands with official

5. Cutaway of cameraman

6. Win getting into car

7. Car leaving

8. Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Sahas Bandidkul walking out of airport

9. Sahas getting into car

10. Wide of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem shaking hands with airport official

11. Wide of news conference

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Tan, Conference spokesman:

"ASEAN has made it clear its position that the politics should not be meshed with the business of providing aid and offering humanitarian assistance itself. But within the family, ASEAN members will certainly discuss this issue and at the same time get an update from the Myanmar government on the state of political developments. It just had a referendum. They just extended Aung San Suu Kyi's arrest, and they're moving ahead with the roadmap 2010 election. So I think these issues should all be looked at."

13. Cutaway of journalists in news conference

14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Tan, Conference spokesman:

"The way ASEAN has survived all these years is not to allow bilateral disputes to actually affect the grouping's solidarity as well as the grouping's efforts to bank closer together as a regional community. So we encourage both sides (Thailand and Cambodia) to exercise restraint and also to resolve the issue peacefully."

15. Wide of news conference

STORYLINE:

Asia's annual security dialogue with the United States and Europe kicked off in Singapore on Sunday, weighed down by the recalcitrant regimes in North Korea and Myanmar, as well as spiralling food prices and disaster management.

A bubbling border confrontation between Cambodia and Thailand is the latest in a long list of security concerns facing Asian foreign ministers as they get together for the region's premier conference.

Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations arrived in Singapore on Sunday ahead of a working dinner later in the day.

They will hold a series of meetings with counterparts from neighbouring countries, culminating in the main event on Thursday, known as the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

At a news conference ahead of official meetings, a conference spokesman, Andrew Tan, spoke about some of the issues to be discussed during the summit.

These included the recent Thailand Cambodia border dispute that has seen both countries reinforce troops along a disputed border area.

"We encourage both sides (Thailand and Cambodia) to exercise restraint and also to resolve the issue peacefully," Tan told reporters.

Also on the agenda will be the behaviour of Myanmar's junta, which has done little to allow democracy and has refused to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.

ASEAN has been criticised for doing little to force Myanmar, a fellow member, to change its ways, but was hailed for persuading the junta to accept international aid and relief workers after a devastating cyclone in May.

"ASEAN has made it clear its position that the politics should not be meshed with the business of providing aid and offering humanitarian assistance itself," Tan said.

"But within the family, ASEAN members will certainly discuss this issue and at the same time get an update from the Myanmar government on the state of political developments," he added.

The ARF comprises ASEAN and 16 countries plus the European Union.

In between will be the most keenly watched event on the sidelines of the conference: a meeting of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun and their counterparts from China, Japan, South Korea and Russia, who are taking part in the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program.

It will be the highest level of contact between the six countries since 2003 when negotiations began to get North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program in exchange for political and economic incentives.

US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said he did not expect Rice and Pak to meet bilaterally, but expected there would be an informal meeting of ministers taking part in the so-called six-party talks on the North's nuclear programme.

The optimism over North Korea notwithstanding, the forum is clearly worried about the security situation in the region.

"Despite the ARF's best efforts ... security threat and challenges that could undermine the peace, security and stability of the region still exist," said a draft of the statement that will be issued at the end of the meeting. The draft was obtained by The Associated Press.

Disaster relief and management will be another main topic of discussion in the wake of the Myanmar cyclone, the May earthquake in China and a recent ferry sinking in the Philippines.

The participants are expected this week to pledge to intensify cooperation on disaster relief and management. Among the steps being discussed is the setting up of an interim ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Security for Asia is not only in terms of traditional military conflicts but also the "growing challenge posed by rising oil and food prices," said a draft statement of a separate ASEAN declaration.

The problems "pose a serious challenge to our peoples' welfare as well as our countries' continued economic development," said the draft.

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Seoul - 24 April 2015

1. Thousands of people attending protest by Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in central Seoul

2. Protesters holding up posters reading (Korean) "Demanding the basic labour rights"

3. Poster reading (Korean): "President Park Geun-hye must step down!"

4. Various of protesters holding red banners reading (Korean) "Let's end, Park Geun-hye! Let's go! Strike!"

5. Seated protesters raising clenched fists

6. President of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Han Sang-goon

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Han Sang-goon, President of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

"The Park Geun-hye government must change the current policies favouring the chaebol (South Korean form of business conglomerate) to a caring policy for the labourers. We are demanding to solve the temporary worker problem and to raise the minimum wage."

8. Protesters singing on stage

9. Protesters with clenched fists singing

10. Protesters holding up signs

11. Various of protesters carrying flags of labour unions through crowd

12. Flags flying during protest

13. Protesters seated

STORYLINE

Thousands took part in anti-government protests in cities across South Korea on Friday denouncing the labour policies of an increasingly unpopular President Park Geun-hye.

The rallies were orchestrated by the country's largest umbrella labour union.

They come about a week after police clashed violently in the capital Seoul with demonstrators denouncing the government's handling of a ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people a year ago.

A spokesman from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions said demonstrators were demanding an end to the country's temporary worker problem, and an increase in the minimum wage.

Labour organisations are critical of policies they say will reduce wages and job security as well as being unhappy with a revised pension system for government employees and the economic dominance of family-owned conglomerates known as chaebol.

Organisers said the rally of 10,000 people in Seoul was held without significant conflict with police.

However, sporadic clashes were reported in other cities.

Another large rally is planned in Seoul on Saturday when unionised workers plan to join groups supporting the families of the ferry disaster victims.

They have been calling for the government to allow a more thorough investigation into the cause of the sinking.

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