VOICE-OVER SCRIPT:

SOUTH KOREA IS TURNING TO AN AMERICAN CUSTOM TO DEAL WITH ONE OF ITS WORST MARITIME DISASTERS IN HISTORY.

PUTTING UP YELLOW RIBBONS -- A SYMBOL OF HOPE AND RETURN -- --EVERYWHERE.

AT THE PORT WHERE THE BODIES ARE BEING BROUGHT FOR IDENTIFICATION......ON THE STREETS OF THE NATION'S CAPITOL...AND AT THE SCHOOL WHERE HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS....HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS ....WERE ENROLLED.

(NATSOUND)

MANY RELATIVES OF THOSE STILL MISSING HAVE PAST THE BREAKING POINT.

THEY HAVE BEEN DEMANDING A SPEEDIER RECOVERY EFFORT.

THURSDAY - THEY SURROUNDED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS -- REFUSING TO LET THEM LEAVE A MEETING UNTIL THEIR QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED --- THEIR DEMANDS MET.

(NATSOUND)

SOME OF THE RELATIVES WERE TAKEN BY BOAT TO THE SITE OF THE DISASTER -- WHERE THEY COULD SEE THE LARGE PONTOONS FLOATING ABOVE THE FERRY.

HUNDREDS OF DIVERS HAVE BEEN WORKING THE SITE BELOW.

(NATSOUND)

INVESTIGATORS RAIDED SEVERAL OFFICES THURSDAY --BRINGING OUT BOXES OF DOCUMENTS AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.

FOUR MORE CREW MEMBERS WERE ARRESTED.

THEY WORE MASKS TO COVER THEIR FACES -- AND MUMBLED APOLOGIES FOR THE DISASTER

(NATSOUND)

IT'S MY FAULT, I'M SORRY...THIS CREWMEMBER SAID.

(NATSOUND)

THE SCHOOL WHERE 80 PERCENT OF VICTIMS WERE STUDENTS -- HAS NOW REOPENED.

SENIORS WALKED PAST A MAKESHIFT SHRINE OF YELLOW RIBBONS -- FLOWERS AND CONDOLENCE NOTES.

AT A NEARBY PARK....WHERE A TEMPORARY MEMORIAL ALTAR HAS BEEN ERECTED....HUNDREDS OF VISITORS CAME TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS.

(NATSOUND)

PRESIDENT OBAMA -- NOW VISITING ASIA -- WILL ARRIVE IN SOUTH KOREA

FRIDAY.

HIS VISIT COMES AT A SENSITIVE TIME -- WITH THE COUNTRY IS REELING....AND OFFICIALS FACED WITH THE DECISION OF WHEN TO BRING IN CRANES TO RAISE THE SUBMERGED FERRY.....WITH SO MANY VICTIMS STILL MISSING.

NED BARKER...ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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Jino, South Korea - April 24, 2014

1. Wide of woman putting up yellow ribbon

2. Pan right from ribbons to walkway

3. Tight of hands working on ribbons

4. Wide of ribbons and woman in yellow vest

5. Mid of dock area with people

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Seoul, South Korea - April 24, 2014

6. Wide yellow ribbon in business district

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Ansan, South Korea - April 24, 2014

7. Wide of students walking through entranceway to school

8. Mid of students on roadway with bus coming

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Jindo, South Korea

9. Various of family members confronting officials about disaster

10. Mid of relatives of family members on boat at disaster site

11. Wide of pontoons floating in water

SOUTH KOREAN COAST GUARD - Courtesy

Off Jindo, South Korea - April 24, 2014

12. Diver jumping into water

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Incheon, South Korea - April 24, 2014

13. Various of investigators carrying out boxes from various sites

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Jindo, South Korea - April 24,2014

14. Various of crew members being led out in front of media

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Ansan, South Korea - April 24, 2014

15. Wide of students walking through entranceway to school

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Ansan, South Korea - April 23, 2014

16. Wide of class door with condolence notes

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Ansan, South Korea - April 24, 2014

17. Mid of students with ribbons in foreground

18. Mid of student with purple backpack

19. Wide of visitors to temporary memorial altar

20. Tight of altar with photos of students

21. Mid of visitors dressed in black

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Tokyo, Japan - April 24, 2014

22. Various of President Obama with Japan's emperor

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23. AP Map of Jindo, South Korea

24. Wide of water near disaster site

25. Wide of motorized raft at disaster site

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VOICE-OVER SCRIPT:

SOUTH KOREA IS TURNING TO AN AMERICAN CUSTOM TO DEAL WITH ONE OF ITS WORST MARITIME DISASTERS IN HISTORY.

PUTTING UP YELLOW RIBBONS -- A SYMBOL OF HOPE AND RETURN -- --EVERYWHERE.

AT THE PORT WHERE THE BODIES ARE BEING BROUGHT FOR IDENTIFICATION......ON THE STREETS OF THE NATION'S CAPITOL...AND AT THE SCHOOL WHERE HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS....HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS ....WERE ENROLLED.

(NATSOUND)

MANY RELATIVES OF THOSE STILL MISSING HAVE PAST THE BREAKING POINT.

THEY HAVE BEEN DEMANDING A SPEEDIER RECOVERY EFFORT.

THURSDAY - THEY SURROUNDED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS -- REFUSING TO LET THEM LEAVE A MEETING UNTIL THEIR QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED --- THEIR DEMANDS MET.

(NATSOUND)

SOME OF THE RELATIVES WERE TAKEN BY BOAT TO THE SITE OF THE DISASTER -- WHERE THEY COULD SEE THE LARGE PONTOONS FLOATING ABOVE THE FERRY.

HUNDREDS OF DIVERS HAVE BEEN WORKING THE SITE BELOW.

(NATSOUND)

INVESTIGATORS RAIDED SEVERAL OFFICES THURSDAY --BRINGING OUT BOXES OF DOCUMENTS AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.

FOUR MORE CREW MEMBERS WERE ARRESTED.

THEY WORE MASKS TO COVER THEIR FACES -- AND MUMBLED APOLOGIES FOR THE DISASTER

(NATSOUND)

IT'S MY FAULT, I'M SORRY...THIS CREWMEMBER SAID.

(NATSOUND)

THE SCHOOL WHERE 80 PERCENT OF VICTIMS WERE STUDENTS -- HAS NOW REOPENED.

SENIORS WALKED PAST A MAKESHIFT SHRINE OF YELLOW RIBBONS -- FLOWERS AND CONDOLENCE NOTES.

AT A NEARBY PARK....WHERE A TEMPORARY MEMORIAL ALTAR HAS BEEN ERECTED....HUNDREDS OF VISITORS CAME TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS.

(NATSOUND)

PRESIDENT OBAMA -- NOW VISITING ASIA -- WILL ARRIVE IN SOUTH KOREA

FRIDAY.

HIS VISIT COMES AT A SENSITIVE TIME -- WITH THE COUNTRY IS REELING....AND OFFICIALS FACED WITH THE DECISION OF WHEN TO BRING IN CRANES TO RAISE THE SUBMERGED FERRY.....WITH SO MANY VICTIMS STILL MISSING.

NED BARKER...ASSOCIATED PRESS.

AP TELEVISION

Jino, South Korea - April 24, 2014

1. Wide of woman putting up yellow ribbon

2. Pan right from ribbons to walkway

3. Tight of hands working on ribbons

4. Wide of ribbons and woman in yellow vest

5. Mid of dock area with people

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Seoul, South Korea - April 24, 2014

6. Wide yellow ribbon in business district

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Ansan, South Korea - April 24, 2014

7. Wide of students walking through entranceway to school

8. Mid of students on roadway with bus coming

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Jindo, South Korea

9. Various of family members confronting officials about disaster

10. Mid of relatives of family members on boat at disaster site

11. Wide of pontoons floating in water

SOUTH KOREAN COAST GUARD - Courtesy

Off Jindo, South Korea - April 24, 2014

12. Diver jumping into water

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Incheon, South Korea - April 24, 2014

13. Various of investigators carrying out boxes from various sites

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Jindo, South Korea - April 24,2014

14. Various of crew members being led out in front of media

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Ansan, South Korea - April 24, 2014

15. Wide of students walking through entranceway to school

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Ansan, South Korea - April 23, 2014

16. Wide of class door with condolence notes

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Ansan, South Korea - April 24, 2014

17. Mid of students with ribbons in foreground

18. Mid of student with purple backpack

19. Wide of visitors to temporary memorial altar

20. Tight of altar with photos of students

21. Mid of visitors dressed in black

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Tokyo, Japan - April 24, 2014

22. Various of President Obama with Japan's emperor

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23. AP Map of Jindo, South Korea

24. Wide of water near disaster site

25. Wide of motorized raft at disaster site

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

Crew members from a sunken South Korean ferry arrived in court on Tuesday to hear the verdicts following one of the country's deadliest disasters in many decades.

The sinking of the 'Sewol' is believed to have killed 304 people, mostly teenage students travelling to a resort island for a school trip in April.

295 bodies have been found.

The ferry's crew members are facing charges in Gwangju District Court of negligence and abandonment of passengers.

Prosecutors have demanded a death penalty for the ship's 68-year-old captain, Lee Joon-seok, and life sentences for three other key crew members.

They also requested that 11 other crew members be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.

The 15 crew members on trial were among the first people to be rescued from the ship when it began listing en route from Incheon, west of Seoul, to the resort island of Jeju.

SOUTH KOREAN COAST GUARD HANDOUT

FILE: At sea, near Jindo island - 16 April 2014

1. Various aerials of capsized ship, rescue boats approaching

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Gwangju - 11 November 2014

2. Various of bus carrying 15 crew members of sunken ferry, Sewol, entering the Gwangju District Court

3. Crew members inside the bus

4. Bus entering garage

5. Various of gate being shut

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Gwangju - 11 November 2014

6. Police escorting ferry Captain Lee Joon-seok up staircase

7. Various of police escorting crew members

SOUTH KOREAN COAST GUARD HANDOUT

FILE: At sea, near Jindo island - 16 April 2014

8. Various aerials of emergency crews on boats rescuing passengers

9. Various of rescue helicopter lifting rescued passengers in metal basket

10. Capsized ship as seen from helicopter

11. Passengers in life jackets sitting on side of capsized ship

15 crew members of the sunken South Korean ferry were indicted on Thursday for their part in the disaster which left over 300 dead last month.

Four of the crew - including the captain - were charged with homicide, for failing to carry out their duties to protect passengers in need, which led to their deaths.

In Seoul, South Koreans continued to visit a memorial altar to pay tributes to the dead, many of whom were students from a single high school near Seoul.

30 days have passed since the Sewol ferry sunk off the southwestern coast of South Korea, and despite exhaustive recovery efforts 21 passengers remain missing.

News of the charges against the crew members was welcomed by those writing tributes on yellow ribbons and laying flowers at the memorial.

People The Associated Press spoke to on Thursday said it was right they should be charged with murder.

The actions of the crew and particularly Captain Lee Joon-seok has shocked a nation in mourning.

Lee initially told passengers to stay in their cabins and took half an hour to issue an evacuation order - though it's not known if his message was ever conveyed to passengers.

In a video taken by the coast guard, he was seen escaping the ferry in his underwear to a rescue boat while many passengers were still in the sinking ship.

If convicted, they could face the death penalty, according to the Supreme Court.

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Seoul, South Korea - May 15, 2014

1. Pan from yellow ribbons on memorial hanging on a side to citizens passing by

2. Close of yellow ribbons with a message reading (Korean) "We respect those who have rescued."

3. Mid of Yu Yeon-hang writing her message to the victims on the message board

4. Close of message board reading (Korean) "Our babies, how will we be able to express this sorrow?"

5. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Yu Yeon-hang, 52, teacher:

"I just can't understand how the ferry captain responsible for everything escaped taking care of his life, leaving all young students behind, regardless of what his reasons may be. My heart aches and I think they should be charged with murder."

6. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Im Jong-rok, 37, worker:

"I think that it is right they are charged with murder. It is an indirect murder if not a direct one, that they left all the passengers behind even though there was enough time to evacuate them."

7. Wide of Seoul City Hall with Sewol ferry joint memorial altar at the front

8. Mid of a sign reading (Korean) "We are sorry. We wish for the victims' safe return and pray for their souls."

9. Students waiting in line holding flowers

10. Close of a student holding a flower

11. Students walking to the altar

12. Students putting flowers on altar

13. Wide of students paying silent tribute

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FILE - Jindo, South Kkorea - April 16, 2014

14. Ferry captain wearing blanket around his body right after rescue from sinking ferry

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FILE - Mokpo, South Korea - April 18, 2014

15. Captain walking into room at the Coast Guard Office in Mokpo surrounded by the officials for investigation

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FILE - Mokpo, South Korea - April 19, 2014

16. Ferry captain coming out of the Coast Guard Office in Mokpo after arrest

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

South Korea's prime minister participated on Wednesday in a ceremony for the launch of a new South Korean safety ministry created in response to April's Sewol ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people.

The Ministry of Public Safety and Security is a broader safety agency established as a part of South Korean government's restructuring plans, which include disbanding the coast guard and transferring its responsibilities to the safety agency and the national police agency.

The coast guard has faced withering public criticism over its failure to rescue passengers trapped in the ferry that sank on its way to a holiday island.

The Ministry of Personnel Management was also launched on Wednesday and will be looking over government personnel matters.

Prime Minister Chung Hong-won at the ceremony said the new safety ministry should "greatly step up" anti-disaster capabilities and guarantee the safety of the population through an "effective integrated disaster response system."

The safety agency will incorporate some duties of the coast guard and the security and public administration ministry, and take over the state disaster office.

On Tuesday, South Korean President Park Geun-hye nominated a retired navy general as head of the ministry.

Park In-yong is a former deputy head of the military's joint chiefs of staff, according to the presidential Blue House.

His nomination is required to undergo a parliamentary hearing, although the appointment does not need a legislative endorsement.

More than seven months after the sinking, 295 bodies have been recovered but nine others are still missing.

South Korea last week stopped underwater searches for the missing citing low chances of finding more bodies and safety concerns for divers.

Authorities blamed crew member's negligence and abandonment of passengers, overloaded cargo, improper storage and untimely rescue efforts for the sinking.

A South Korean court last week gave a 36-year prison term to the ferry's captain and sentenced 14 other navigation crew members to five to 30 years in prison.

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Seoul - 19 November 2014

1. South Korea's Prime Minister Chung Hong-won (fourth from right to left) and government officials saluting during inauguration ceremony of Ministry of Public Safety and Security and Ministry of Personnel Management

2. Vice-Minister of Public Safety and Security Lee Sung-ho (left), pan right to Chung and Minister of Personnel Management Lee Geun-myeon (on right) saluting

3. Government officials in silent prayer to pay tribute to deceased workers of National Emergency Management

SOUTH KOREAN COASTGUARD

FILE: Yellow Sea near Jindo island - 16 April 2014

4. Sewol ferry sinking

5. Rescuers on boats during rescue operation

6. Sewol ferry sinking

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Seoul - 19 November 2014

7. Wide of Chung speaking on stage

8. Officials listening to speech

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

"Taking a lesson from the painful accident of the Sewol ferry, (the safety ministry) should greatly step up anti-disaster capabilities. The ministry should show a completely different image by doubling its capacity to control and manage disaster situations."

10. Cutaway of officials listening to speech

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

"The Ministry of Public Safety and Security should perfectly guarantee citizens' safety by establishing an effective integrated disaster response system at the earliest time possible. As separate organisations came together as one ministry, command structures should be firmly equipped as soon as possible by the harmonious integration among members."

12. Officials listening to speech

13. Representatives of Ministry workers reciting declaration

14. Representatives leaving stage, audience applauding

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

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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

SHOTLIST:

Ferry carrying hundreds of passengers, including students, sinks off south coast

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At Sea - 16 April 2014

1. Various STILLS of sinking ship

2. Various STILLS of rescue helicopter

Vice principal of school, where many students are missing after ferry sinking, commits suicide

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Jindo - 18 April 2014

3. Ambulance carrying body of Danwon high school vice principal Kang Min-kyu driving away

4. forest where Kang committed suicide

Coastguard says death toll in ship disaster has risen to 29; divers continue their search

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At Sea - 19 April 2014

5. South Korean coast guard helicopter flying towards site of ship sinking

6. Mid of South Korean Navy Ship Salvage Unit (SSU) divers diving into water from boats

7. Wide of rescue operation

8. Various of SSU divers

Paengmok Port - 19 April 2014

9. Various of families of missing passengers waiting for news in port

Prosecutors indict 15 crew members over ferry disaster, 4 on murder charges

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Seoul - 15 May 2014

10. Pan from yellow ribbons on memorial hanging on a side to citizens passing by

11. Students waiting in line holding flowers

12. Close of a student holding a flower

STORYLINE:

On April 16th 2014 a South Korean passenger ship carrying more than 470 people, including many high school students, sank off the country's southern coast after sending a distress call, officials said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

The ferry with 476 people including 325 high school students was sailing to the southern island of Jeju when it sent a distress call as it began leaning to one side, according to Ministry of Security and Public Administration.

A total of 18 helicopters and 34 rescue boats have been sent to the area and 110 people have been rescued so far, ministry officials said.

Government officials say they have no further details.

Calls to South Korea's coast guard headquarters weren't immediately answered.

***

More tragedy struck in Jindo, South Korea, on April 18th, when a high school vice principal who had been rescued from the ferry that sank on April 16th was found hanged from a pine tree.

Kang Min-kyu hanged himself near a shelter where rescued passengers and their families have been housed temporarily.

Senior police officer Lee Sung-hoon said that Kang had used his own belt to hang himself.

Kang was the lead guide for a school trip taking 325 students to the South Korean island of Jeju.

In a suicide note, he said he wanted to take responsibility for what happened because he had led the trip, according to police.

He asked that his body be cremated and the ashes scattered at the accident site.

Besides the vice principal, at least 28 people are now confirmed dead from the ferry, The Sewol, which sank on April 16th.

Officials said there were 179 survivors and about 270 people remained missing, many of them high school students.

***

On April 19th divers from the South Korean Coast Guard and Navy Ship Salvage Unit (SSU) continued to search for survivors from the ship that sank off the country's southern coast on April 16th.

Several boats circled around two large grey buoys marking the site where the Sewol ship capsized, as divers jumped into murky waters of the East China Sea.

Meanwhile, in Jindo, a coast guard official confirmed that the death toll from the ferry disaster rose to 29.

He also said that another three bodies were spotted by a civilian diver through a window of a room located on the fourth floor of the sunken ship.

But due to floating obstacles, the diver could not retrieve the bodies.

Strong currents and rain have made it difficult to get inside the ferry, where most of the passengers are believed to have been trapped.

Rescuers planned 40 dives on April 19th in an attempt to enter the ferry and retrieve at least some of the more than 270 people missing.

"176 ships and 28 planes will be mobilised to search the area around the sunken ship. 652 civilian, government and military divers will try to search the interior of the ship over 40 attempts," said Ko Myung-seok, director general of Equipment & Technology at Korea Coast Guard.

The Sewol had left the northwestern port of Incheon on Tuesday on an overnight journey to the holiday island of Jeju in the south with 476 people aboard, including 323 students from Danwon High School in Ansan.

It capsized within hours of the crew making a distress call to the shore on Wednesday morning.

With only 174 known survivors and the chances of survival becoming slimmer by the hour, it was shaping up to be one of South Korea's worst disasters.

***

On May 15th 15 crew members of the sunken South Korean ferry were indicted for their part in the disaster which left over 300 dead in April

Four of the crew - including the captain - were charged with homicide, for failing to carry out their duties to protect passengers in need, which led to their deaths.

In Seoul, South Koreans continued to visit a memorial altar to pay tributes to the dead, many of whom were students from a single high school near Seoul.

30 days have passed since the Sewol ferry sunk off the southwestern coast of South Korea, and despite exhaustive recovery efforts 21 passengers remain missing.

News of the charges against the crew members was welcomed by those writing tributes on yellow ribbons and laying flowers at the memorial.

People The Associated Press spoke to on May 15th said it was right they should be charged with murder.

The actions of the crew and particularly Captain Lee Joon-seok has shocked a nation in mourning.

Lee initially told passengers to stay in their cabins and took half an hour to issue an evacuation order - though it's not known if his message was ever conveyed to passengers.

In a video taken by the coast guard, he was seen escaping the ferry in his underwear to a rescue boat while many passengers were still in the sinking ship.

If convicted, they could face the death penalty, according to the Supreme Court.

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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VIDEO SHOT BY A SURVIVOR OF THE SOUTH KOREAN FERRY DISASTER SHOWS THE SCENE ON BOARD THE VESSEL. A PASSENGER CAN BE HEARD SAYING THAT THE STUDENTS DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE SHIP.

AND THEN OFFICIALS ON THE BOAT ANNOUNCE THAT QUOTE "IT IS SAFER IN THE PASSENGER QUARTERS."

MANY OF THOSE RESCUED HAVE CRITICIZED THE LOUD SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT, SAYING THAT MANY MORE PEOPLE COULD HAVE GOT OFF THE SHIP BEFORE IT SANK IF IT HADN'T BEEN MADE.

ACCORDING TO A CREW MEMBER, THE FIRST INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE CAPTAIN WERE FOR PASSENGERS TO PUT ON THEIR LIFE JACKETS AND STAY PUT, FOLLOWED BY EVACUATION ORDERS 30 MINUTES LATER.

RELATIVES OF THE MISSING PASSENGERS WAITED AT A GYMNASIUM FOR NEWS OF THEIR LOVED ONES, AMID GROWING FEARS THAT MORE THAN 280 MISSING PASSENGERS, MANY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, WERE DEAD.

THE FAMILY OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS VISITED THEIR SON'S BODY IN A MORGUE AND THEN WATCHED AS IT WAS DRIVEN AWAY.

SOUNDBITE (Korean) Huh Won, victim's grandfather:

"Now he is dead. This is something we shouldn't have experienced, something that shouldn't have happened."

RESCUERS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO CARRY OUT SEARCH OPERATIONS BECAUSE OF STRONG CURRENTS AND POOR VISIBILITY.

SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Soo-hyun, regional coastguard chief:

"We have made efforts to extend the survival time by approaching the ship and trying to increase the amount of oxygen present inside. However, because of the various reasons I explained, approaching was difficult because of the strong current and low visibility. Because this, our task has not yet been accomplished."

THE CAUSE OF THE DISASTER IS STILL UNKNOWN, BUT COAST GUARD OFFICIALS WERE INTERVIEWING THE CAPTAIN AND CREW.

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At Sea, Near Jindo - April 16th, 2014

1. Mid pan of passengers wearing life jackets standing and lying on a tilting angle, taken by Kim Dong-soo, a passenger on the Sewol ship, with his mobile phone

2. Mid of the tilted ship deck

UPSOUND (Korean) : Unknown, passenger on the ship

"The students on the ship don't know about this (the sinking of the ship) at all."

3. Wide pan from various passengers wearing life jackets on the tilted ship deck to ceiling and passengers on the other side of the deck

UPSOUND (Korean) : Announcement on the ship

"It is safer in the passenger quarters."

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Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

4. Mid reverse shot of South Korean president Park Geun-hye looking out at wreck of ferry

5. Wide search boats near wreck

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Near Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

6. Wide helicopter flying over vessel in search for survivors

7. Mid rescue boat near ship

8. Tight rescue boat near ship

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Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

9. Wide gymnasium acting as shelter for relatives

10. Tight family member of a missing passenger praying

11. Mid of person being comforted by officials

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Mokdo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

12. Tight family leaving morgue after identifying body

13. Tight victim's body being wheeled to ambulance in body bag

14. Tight victim's mother watching on

15. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Huh Won, victim's grandfather (Transcript Below)

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Near Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

16. Various of search boats near ferry, rough sea conditions

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Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

17. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Soo-hyun, regional coastguard chief (Transcript Below)

18. Various of family members in gymnasium waiting for news

As South Korean divers enter their sixth month searching for bodies trapped inside the sunken Sewol ferry, grieving family members still wait in a dimly lit basketball court for news.

It was in the Jindo gymnasium that hundreds of journalists jostled for space in the galley where they could peer down at distressed relatives shouting and cursing at government and police officials, as the hopes to find more survivors dimmed.

The seats are now empty, illustrating the waning public interest.

South Koreans responded with fury after the 6,286-ton Sewol listed and submerged in chilly waters off the southwest coast on a journey to Jeju Island in April.

Only 172 of the 476 passengers were rescued and the fact that most of the victims were teenagers on a school trip heightened the emotional reaction.

After a period highlighted by protests, a presidential vow to disband the heavily-criticized coast guard, an intense manhunt for the billionaire ferry owner who was found decomposing in a plum field, and Pope Francis comforting the families of the dead passengers, the country seems to be moving on.

The Jindo Gymnasium and Paengmok Port, which housed several hundred family members of the passengers and journalists, are both now almost empty.

The developments are unsettling for the tightly-knit group of people who vow to stay put until they see the remains of their loved ones.

Kwon Oh-bok looks up to the stands and remembers when they were full.

"People here are all waiting to find the missing people, and I just want to see the faces of those who are telling us to just forget it and let go," he said.

Kwon is still waiting for his 54-year-old younger brother Jae-keun and his 6-year-old nephew Kyeok-kyu to return home.

Divers found the body of Kwon's sister-in-law, Han Yoon-ji, a 29-year old Vietnamese-born naturalised citizen, a week after the ferry sank.

Kwon's niece, 4-year-old Ji-yeon, survived the disaster.

Kwon, who placed sketched portraits of Jae-keun and Hyeok-kyu at the base of his tent, the only one in the gym, said he waited until July before holding Han's funeral because he wanted to bury her with her husband and son.

Kwon said his brother was greatly excited about the prospects of life in Jeju, where he had purchased a tangerine farm.

They talked over the telephone a day before Jae-keun boarded the ferry with his wife and children with thoughts of beginning a new chapter of their lives on the resort island.

During the investigation into the ferry's sinking, victims' families were shown security camera footage from inside the boat the morning of the accident.

Kwon said the video showed Jae-keun and his family at the cafeteria eating cup noodles for what seemed as breakfast. Jae-keun blew the noodles and fed them to his son, while Han watched her daughter run around the diner navigating through school girls, Kwon said.

Less than two hours later at 9 a.m., Sewol began to capsize.

Kwon thinks that his niece, who is now cared for by her aunt, is beginning to accept that her parents and brother are dead.

"She seems to know that her mother, father, and older brother have already died. Though she does not specifically mention, she remembers boarding the ferry and the ferry sinking," said Kwon.

While the families in Jindo refuse to admit it, the search operations for the missing persons might have reached its limit.

Divers last found a body on the ship on July 18.

Since then, they have been risking their own safety on the island's notoriously treacherous waters in search for cellphones, shoes and school uniforms.

As the relatives extend their agonising wait in Jindo, the media and government interest has shifted to Seoul where families of the found student victims continue to fight intensely for a special law to ensure their influence in a potential new probe.

The protesting families are calling for the rights to name half the experts of the independent investigation committee, including the chairman.

They also want the committee to have the power to request search warrants and prosecute anyone they find responsible for the accident.

President Park and her party are strongly opposed to the demands, saying it would disrupt the country's judicial procedures.

The intense debate over the special law has prevented government officials and politicians from openly debating when to salvage the ship.

The prolonged stay at a temporary shelter appears to have taken a toll on the health of the relatives, some of them frequently visiting hospitals in nearby Mokpo to treat various symptoms.

Jindo's county officials have offered to move the families to a more accommodating shelter, but they refused because they consider the gym symbolic.

People still visit Paengmok port to pay their respects to the victims of the incident, adding to the number of yellow ribbons flying in their memory.

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Jindo - 12 September, 2014

1. Wide of Paengmok port with yellow ribbons tied to the pier, in ode to those who were onboard the Sewol ferry

2. Close of ribbon painted onto lighthouse with the numbers 416 next to it, representing 16 April which is when the disaster happened

3. Wide of pier

4. Various of missing people's shoes with flowers and yellow ribbons

5. Close of names of missing father and son written on table

6. Kwon Oh-bok inside Jindo gymnasium in a tent, with paintings of his brother and nephew who are still missing

8. Tilt-up of Kwon reading newspaper

9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kwon Oh-bok, relative of man and boy still missing in Sewol sinking:

"People here are all waiting to find the missing passengers, and I just want to see the faces of those who are telling us to just forget it and let go. We don't care about those people who appear on television (who say that people should forget and let go). We must return home with them (the missing passengers),"

SOUTH KOREAN COAST GUARD

FILE: Jindo - 16 April, 2014

10. Wide of the Sewol ferry listed

11. Korean Coast Guard rescuing passengers off ferry

12. Rescue in progress with child visible being carried by one of the passengers, she is Kwon's 4-year-old niece, who survived

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Jindo - 12 September, 2014

13. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kwon Oh-bok, relative of man and boy still missing in Sewol sinking:

"She (Kwon's niece) seems to know that her mother, father, and older brother have already died. Though she does not specifically mention it, she remembers boarding the ferry and the ferry sinking. As already mentioned, in the Western age system, she is just four years old. And she does remember it. As she ages, she might forget the memory of (the ferry disaster)."

14. Various of family member of missing person lying on blankets at the Jindo gymnasium

15. Various of drawings of some of the missing

16. Medical volunteer teams inside the Jindo gymnasium

17. Close of banner (in Korean) wishing for everyone aboard the ferry to be rescued

18. Blankets that were used by relatives on floor

19. Mother of one of the missing students inside gymnasium

20. Wide of the near-empty gymnasium

SOUTH KOREAN COAST GUARD

FILE: Jindo - 16 April, 2014

21. Wide of captain of the Sewol Ferry, Lee Jun-seok, being helped off sinking ferry (Captain is the person in his underwear)

22. Korean Coast Guard dinghy with rescued passengers leaving

23. Dinghy pulling up to another boat

24. Wide of scene of ferry disaster

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Jindo - 12 September, 2014

25. Various of yellow ribbons blowing in the wind at the Paengmok port

26. Various of Buddhist monk performing ritual for those still missing

27. Wide of Paengmok port

28. Korean Coast guard boat sailing by

29. Wide of missing people's shoes and yellow ribbons

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VOICE-OVER SCRIPT:

VIDEO SHOT BY A SURVIVOR OF THE SOUTH KOREAN FERRY DISASTER SHOWS THE SCENE ON BOARD THE VESSEL. A PASSENGER CAN BE HEARD SAYING THAT THE STUDENTS DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE SHIP.

AND THEN OFFICIALS ON THE BOAT ANNOUNCE THAT QUOTE "IT IS SAFER IN THE PASSENGER QUARTERS."

MANY OF THOSE RESCUED HAVE CRITICIZED THE LOUD SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT, SAYING THAT MANY MORE PEOPLE COULD HAVE GOT OFF THE SHIP BEFORE IT SANK IF IT HADN'T BEEN MADE.

ACCORDING TO A CREW MEMBER, THE FIRST INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE CAPTAIN WERE FOR PASSENGERS TO PUT ON THEIR LIFE JACKETS AND STAY PUT, FOLLOWED BY EVACUATION ORDERS 30 MINUTES LATER.

RELATIVES OF THE MISSING PASSENGERS WAITED AT A GYMNASIUM FOR NEWS OF THEIR LOVED ONES, AMID GROWING FEARS THAT MORE THAN 280 MISSING PASSENGERS, MANY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, WERE DEAD.

THE FAMILY OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS VISITED THEIR SON'S BODY IN A MORGUE AND THEN WATCHED AS IT WAS DRIVEN AWAY.

SOUNDBITE (Korean) Huh Won, victim's grandfather:

"Now he is dead. This is something we shouldn't have experienced, something that shouldn't have happened."

RESCUERS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO CARRY OUT SEARCH OPERATIONS BECAUSE OF STRONG CURRENTS AND POOR VISIBILITY.

SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Soo-hyun, regional coastguard chief:

"We have made efforts to extend the survival time by approaching the ship and trying to increase the amount of oxygen present inside. However, because of the various reasons I explained, approaching was difficult because of the strong current and low visibility. Because this, our task has not yet been accomplished."

THE CAUSE OF THE DISASTER IS STILL UNKNOWN, BUT COAST GUARD OFFICIALS WERE INTERVIEWING THE CAPTAIN AND CREW.

MATTHEW BURGOYNE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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At Sea, Near Jindo - April 16th, 2014

1. Mid pan of passengers wearing life jackets standing and lying on a tilting angle, taken by Kim Dong-soo, a passenger on the Sewol ship, with his mobile phone

2. Mid of the tilted ship deck

UPSOUND (Korean) : Unknown, passenger on the ship

"The students on the ship don't know about this (the sinking of the ship) at all."

3. Wide pan from various passengers wearing life jackets on the tilted ship deck to ceiling and passengers on the other side of the deck

UPSOUND (Korean) : Announcement on the ship

"It is safer in the passenger quarters."

YONHAP TV - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA

Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

4. Mid reverse shot of South Korean president Park Geun-hye looking out at wreck of ferry

5. Wide search boats near wreck

AP TELEVISION

Near Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

6. Wide helicopter flying over vessel in search for survivors

7. Mid rescue boat near ship

8. Tight rescue boat near ship

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Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

9. Wide gymnasium acting as shelter for relatives

10. Tight family member of a missing passenger praying

11. Mid of person being comforted by officials

AP TELEVISION

Mokdo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

12. Tight family leaving morgue after identifying body

13. Tight victim's body being wheeled to ambulance in body bag

14. Tight victim's mother watching on

15. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Huh Won, victim's grandfather (Transcript Below)

AP TELEVISION

Near Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

16. Various of search boats near ferry, rough sea conditions

AP TELEVISION

Jindo, South Korea - April 17, 2014

17. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Soo-hyun, regional coastguard chief (Transcript Below)

18. Various of family members in gymnasium waiting for news

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

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.

They 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.

The relatives confronted the government representatives twice, the second time at a meeting at Paengmok Port, where they hemmed in the officials, including the minister for oceans and fisheries, Lee Ju-young.

Investigations were continuing on Thursday into what happened and who is to blame for the disaster.

Four more crew members were arrested, all of them believed to be engineers.

They were brought before the media, where they mumbled apologies for the disaster.

The arrests bring to 20 the total of crew held so far on charges including negligence of duty and failure to protect passengers, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Authorities have conducted a number of raids as the investigation into last week's sinking continues.

On Wednesday, officials seized boxes of material from the offices of the Korea Shipping Association (KSA), the Chonghaejin Marine Company, the operator of the Sewol ferry, and from the residence of Yoo Byung-un, the practical owner of the Sewol.

The coast guard, meanwhile, released sonar pictures of the wreck of the shipwreck on Thursday.

The images show it lying on its side.

They were produced by a robotic underwater vehicle, one of a range of hi-tech devices committed to the search operation.

The images give no hint of the difficulties facing the diving teams who are working in both daylight and at night time in cold, murky, fast-flowing water.

Once the bodies are all found, the plan is to use giant ship-borne cranes to try to raise the ferry.

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1. Relatives of missing passengers pushing and shouting at government officer

2. Overhead view of relatives of missing passengers surrounding government officers trying to give information about recovery operation

3. Relatives surrounding chief of South Korea's coast guard, the deputy chief of the coast guard and Oceans and Fisheries Minister (not in vision)

4. Various of relatives of passengers trying to block and expel plainclothes policemen from tent where coast guard officials and minister are surrounded

5. Minister of Oceans and Fisheries, Lee Ju-young, Coast Guard chief Kim Seok-kyun and deputy coast guard chief Choi Sang-hwan (from left to right) seated and surrounded by relatives of missing passengers

6. Various of officials surrounded by relatives of missing passengers

7. Close-up of minister and coast guard chief

8. Various of minister and coast guard officials surrounded by relatives

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Jindo - 24 April 2014

9. Crew members, with heads covered by the hoods of their coats, their faces obscured by face masks, and their hands restricted and covered, being led from the prosecutor's office

10. Pan from covered hands to crew member

11. Pan of crew members under investigation outside the prosecutor's office

12. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Sohn Ji-tae, Engineer

"I have made scars that cannot be removed and caused pain to the families and the whole nation."

13. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Soo-jin, Engineer

"It's my fault, I'm sorry."

14. Crew members being led away

YONHAP - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA

Incheon - 23 April 2014

15. South Korean police and officials from prosecutor's office coming down stairs carrying boxes seized from the Korea Shipping Association (KSA) Incheon operation management office at the Incheon Port International Passenger Terminal

16. Officials walking out with boxes

17. Sign that reads (English and Korean) "Haewoon Korea Shipping Association operation management office"

18. Officials loading boxes from the KSA office into truck while surrounded by media

19. Boxes being loaded onto truck

20. Officials carrying out boxes from the Sewol ferry operator, Chonghaejin Marine Company, office in Incheon

21. Officials carrying boxes with material seized from Chonghaejin office

22. Tilt up from box marked (English) "Prosecution Service" to official

23. Box being loaded into car

YONHAP - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA

Seoul - 23 April 2014

24. Officials (seen through gate) carrying out boxes from the home of Chonghaejin Marine Company owner Yoo Byung-un to close-up of box

25. Box being loaded into van

26. Official carrying box

SOUTH KOREA COAST GUARD HANDOUT

Jindo - 23 April 2014

27. Sonar image capturing the sunk ferry under water

28. Sonar image capturing the sunk ferry under water

29. Wide of a robot used to capture the sonar image of the ferry under water

30. Mid of diver jumping into the ocean for the search operation

31. Wide night shots of divers at sea for the search operation ++NIGHT SHOT++