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

Students who lost classmates in last week's South Korean ferry disaster went back to school without them for the first time on Thursday, while people streamed into a makeshift memorial nearby to pay their respects to the dead.

The victims of the April 16 disaster are overwhelmingly students of a single high school in Ansan, near Seoul.

At the school on Thursday, students filed to classes past a makeshift shrine of yellow ribbons, flowers and notes left in remembrance of the victims.

A hearse carrying the body of one of the students passed by in a lap of honour on its way to the cremation, followed by a bus carrying mourning relatives.

Divers made their way deeper on Thursday into the submerged wreck as the death toll passed 160 and relatives of the more than 140 still missing pressed the government to finish the grim task of recovery soon.

Meanwhile, visitors lined up at the Ansan Olympic Park, where the temporary memorial altar is located, to express their condolences.

"I am very sad, but at the same time, I also feel resentful and angry," said businessman Lee Dong-geun, after visiting the memorial.

"When I entered, I saw the faces of those students (who died) and could not fight back my tears. As an adult over 50, I feel extremely sorry for them."

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1. Various of third year students of Danwon High School returning to classes for the first time since the ferry disaster that claimed the lives of many of their classmates

2. Sign on building reading (in Korean) "Danwon High School"

3. Hearse carrying body of a student who died arriving at the school

4. Hearse and a bus carrying mourning relatives coming out of school after passing by before heading to cremation

5. Various of undertakers placing a portrait of a victim at the memorial at Ansan Olympic Park stadium

6. Various of people paying respects at memorial

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Dong-geun, businessman:

"I am very sad, but at the same time, I also feel resentful and angry. When I entered, I saw faces of those students (who died) and could not fight back my tears. As an adult over 50, I feel extremely sorry for them."

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) You Jae-myoung, pastor:

"South Korea is in pain, Ansan city is in pain and relatives of victims are in pain. The way we always have, I hope people bring cheer to each other so that everyone can recover."

9. Portraits of victims at memorial

10. Various of people paying respects at memorial

Pope Francis will greet survivors of South Korea's ferry sinking and elderly women forced into sexual slavery for Japan's wartime military when he makes his first trip to Asia next week.

The main reason for Francis' April 14-18 trip to South Korea is to participate in an Asian Catholic youth festival and beatify 124 18th century Korean martyrs.

Asia, as Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said at a news conference, is also a strategic place for Catholics to evangelise, due to its growing demographics and the fact that Christianity is a minority but growing religion.

But the trip - the first by a pope to the Korean peninsula in 25 years - will also provide Francis with opportunities to comfort recent victims and to pray for peace and reconciliation between North and South Korea.

The Vatican said survivors of the April 16 ferry disaster, that left more than 300 people dead or missing, are expected to attend an August 15 Mass.

Meanwhile, a group of Korean war-time sex slaves are expected to attend the pope's final August 18 mass in Seoul.

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1. Wide St. Peters in the distance, crowds in foreground

2. Mid of crowd of tourists walking around the Vatican

3. Rev. Federico Lombardi at news conference

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rev Federico Lombardi, Papal spokesman: (reading the response of the South Korean organising committee regarding the presence of a Catholic delegation from North Korea):

"In the end of July the North Korean officials responded to the preparatory committee that they will not participate in the mass due to various reasons. We feel deeply sorry about the outcome, but we will continue to pray for another chance to celebrate the holy mass with the North Korean faithful."

5. Mid showing people listening in the audience

6. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Rev Federico Lombardi, Papal spokesman:

"There's the theme of peace and reconciliation, this division of Korea, due to the fact that in this area is a 'hot area', you could say, of the planet, an area of significant and important international tension. So to go to Korea to pray for reconciliation and the peace between the two sides of the Korean population and in the whole world, is also a very significant theme. "

7. Wide audience at news conference

8. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Rev Federico Lombardi, Papal spokesman:

"And it's been planned to have in this occasion a delegation of survivors and relatives of the victims of the Sewol ferry disaster. So this is the occasion where the Pope will go and greet them and say words for the victims of the ferry disaster."

9. Cupola of St. Peter's basilica

10. Wide people walking around St. Peter's Square

The mother of a missing student who was on the sunken South Korean ferry said on Monday the government had not done enough in the disaster which has left more than 300 people dead or missing.

Im Seon-mi, whose 16 year-old daughter Park Hye-seon was on board the ferry, 'Sewol', when it capsized last week, fought back tears as she showed pictures of her daughter on her mobile phone.

"I feel like she is gone, when I should be the one who is gone," she said.

Her anger was evident and she accused the government and the media of making the situation worse.

"After Hye-seon's funeral I am not going to let them be," she said. "Be they government or whatever, I am going to kill them and rip their limbs off and hang them up at Gwanghwamun crossroad (landmark in Seoul)."

Anger is widespread among missing passengers' relatives who are staying in a temporary shelter at a gymnasium on the island of Jindo.

On Sunday, about 100 relatives marched for six hours, intending to travel to South Korean president Park Geun-hye's office 400 kilometres (250 miles) away, before police stopped them.

Families also blocked the prime minister's car and cursed at and pushed the fisheries minister.

On Monday, a doctor volunteering to help those relatives said treating them was difficult as many refused to take prescribed medication in fear of missing any developments.

"Many of them do not have time for psychological counselling," said Kim Seog-ju, an assistant professor at a medical school in Seoul.

"If we prescribe sleeping pills some of them do not wish to take them, or refuse to take them so they can monitor the situation."

So far 64 bodies have been recovered, and about 240 people remain missing. About 225 of the missing and dead are students from a single high school near Seoul who were on their way to the southern island of Jeju.

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1. Close-up of Im Seon-mi, mother of missing student Park Hye-seon UPSOUND (Korean) "My daughter, what can I do?"

2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Im Seon-mi, mother of missing daughter Park Hye-seon:

"I feel like she is gone, when I should be the one who is gone"

3. Various of Im holding hand to face whilst crying

4. Close of tag around Im's neck that reads (Korean) "Second grade, Classroom 2" and "Parent"

5. Im sitting by sea UPSOUND (Korean) "So you want to see an even prettier picture of her?"

6. Picture on phone of Im's daughter as child

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Im Seon-mi, mother of missing daughter Park Hye-seon:

"I thought she would return alive yesterday. Resurrected. My daughter. Not just my daughter but I thought all her friends would also return alive."

8. Close of Im's face UPSOUND (Korean) "She did not express very much but she was warm hearted."

9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Im Seon-mi, mother of missing daughter Park Hye-seon:

"The government are just pretending to work. But it's just a show. And the media just play their game. When we request that we need to get in there (the ship), they say something has to come from here and from there. But that's not true. This is a hundred percent man-made disaster. If the government acted quicker, all the children would have been saved."

10. Pan from sea to Im's face

11. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Im Seon-mi, mother of missing daughter Park Hye-seon:

"After Hye-seon's funeral I am not going to let them be. Be they government or whatever, I am going to kill them and rip their limbs off and hang them up at Gwanghwamun crossroad (landmark in Seoul)."

12. Pan from Im to water

13. Various of people inside temporary shelter at Jindo gymnasium

14. Pan from sign that reads (Korean) "counselling room" to doctors sitting at desk

15. Doctor sitting at desk

16. Pharmacist talking to woman

17. Close of woman's hands

18. Pharmacist with medicines in rack behind her

19. Pharmacist handing woman bag

20. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Seog-ju, Assistant Professor at Seoul National University College of Medicine and volunteer helping relatives:

"The relatives are feeling a lot of guilt and nervousness. As I said before, the situation is still ongoing so many of them do not have time for psychological counselling. Even if we prescribe sleeping pills some of them do not wish to take them, or refuse to take them so they can monitor the situation."

21. Woman covering her face crying as she is escorted past by a man

22. Woman hugging her legs, sitting on the ground, ambulance drives past

23. Various of Buddhist monk chanting mantra and beating wood block

A temporary memorial for the Danwon High School students and teachers that sunk with the Sewol ferry opened on Wednesday morning at the Ansan Olympic Museum.

The portraits of 19 Danwon High School students and 2 teachers who lost their lives are currently placed at the altar

The official death toll has reached 146, with at least another 150 still missing.

The portrait of Danwon High School's vice-principal, who was rescued from the listing ferry but committed suicide shortly after, is also among the photographs.

Friends and relatives approached the altar, placing white chrysanthemums to pay their respects.

More than 320 Danwon High School second-year students - mostly 16 and 17-year olds - were on an overnight ferry trip to the southern resort island of Jeju for four days of fun when the ferry listed last Wednesday morning.

A funeral for 25 additional students takes place in Ansan on Wednesday.

1. Mid of temporary memorial at Ansan Olympic Museum in memory of victims who lost their lives in the Sewol ferry disaster

2. Close of photos of deceased victims

3. Mid of people being escorted to memorial

4. Close of visitor placing chrysanthemum (traditionally used at Korean funerals to express condolences to the dead) at memorial

5. Various of mourners paying tribute and crying

6. Wide of mourners

7. Mid of mourners exiting hall

8. Mid of Danwon High School student exiting hall

9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Seung-min, senior at Danwon High School (Answering, "How are your friends dealing with this tragedy?")

"They're constantly watching the news and crying, and going back and forth from the school, placing chrysanthemums and crying, and unable to do anything."

10. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Eom Mi-kyeong, 56, Friend of vice-principal of Danwon High School (who committed suicide after being rescued):

"It (the rescue) should be done quickly, the fact that it's taking too long hurts. I'm wondering why is it this way, that they just find one person at a time. No one has survived, and they're all lost lives, and it's a pity because they're all dead. I can't describe in words how sad it is. It's Ansan's sorrow, and the nation's sorrow."

11. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Koo Hwan-young, 56, Professor at Seoul Institute of the Arts:

"It's a pity. Students, so many students fell victim and this is devastating beyond words."

12. Tilt down from sign that reads (Korean) 'We pray that the deceased will rest in peace' to memorial

13. Mid of visitors crying at altar and leaving

14. Various of mourners at memorial

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Seoul - 17 April 2015

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1. People lighting up candles outside Seoul City Hall in hopes of setting a new Guinness record for creating the largest candlelight image

2. Candles

3. Wide of candlelights

4. Pan from stage to citizens seated on the ground

5. People holding candles

6. Pan of crowd gathered for the candlelight vigil

7. Close of participant

8. Close of paper cup used for holding candles with the words (Korean) "Salvage the Sewol ferry, Reveal the truth"

9. Banner reading (Korean) "The world's saddest challenge" the slogan for the candlelight vigil

10. Wide of the vigil and stage

11. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Jeon Myung-sun, father of Sewol ferry victim Jeon Chan-ho and representative of Sewol ferry victims' families:

"Keeping the promise to conduct thorough investigations to unveil the truth and punish people who are responsible and create a safer community are the tasks of the (victims') families who are left behind. Then as parents who were unable to save our children, we may feel sorry when we meet our loved ones but not ashamed. That will be the task and calling of the families of those who lost their precious lives."

12. Attendants holding candles while watching performance

13. Close of paper cup reading (Korean) "The world's saddest challenge"

14. Close of male participant of the candlelight vigil Reno Kim

15. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Reno Kim, 47, owner of a trade company:

"I came to think that citizens should be outraged. If they keep that indignation to themselves, all the citizens will become ill. They should express (their opinions) and push the government (to do more to carry out people's wishes of unveiling the truth and salvage the ferry), and it feels like that is the only way that could disperse this anger."

16. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Ji-soo, 18, high school student

"Many students who were my age died while trapped in the ferry. Therefore I thought that I must never forget and as a South Korean citizen and student, I thought that such tragedy must be remembered and never repeated."

17. Performers at the candlelight vigil

18. Attendants holding candles seated on the ground

19. Close of participant

20. Medium of participants at the event

21. Candlelights creating the shape of the sunken Sewol ferry

22. Wide of the candlelight image of Sewol ferry

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Thousands of South Koreans gathered to try to set a new record for creating the largest candlelight image to commemorate the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol on Friday night.

The attempt came a day after the first anniversary of the incident, which killed over 300 people.

The initial target was to gather 4,160 people but the number eventually reached 4,475.

They stood in the shape of the sunken ferry, and demanded the South Korean government reveal the truth behind the incident, and salvage the sunken ferry to find nine passengers, who are still missing.

Jeon Myung-sun, the father of Jeon Chan-ho, one of the Danwon High School students who died in the incident, resolved to keep urging the South Korean government to punish the people responsible for the disaster.

Other participants also called on the government to do more.

The Sewol ferry sank on April of last year off the southwestern coast of South Korea.

It was en route to Jeju Island, carrying 476 passengers.

A total of 304 people died, including 250 students from Danwon High School in Ansan, who were on their way to their first field trip as high school students.

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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

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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

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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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