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  Angry and Divided, South Korea Mourns on Anniversary of Ferry Disaster

  A day of mourning for the 304 victims of the Sewol ferry sinking was overtaken by acrimony today, as organisers called off a ceremony planned to mark its one-year anniversary to protest against the South Korean government's response to the disaster.

• South Korean Teens Tell How They Were Left to Escape Sinking Ferry

  Six teenagers who survived South Korea's worst maritime disaster told on Monday how classmates helped them float free as water flooded their cabins.

• Student Survivors of South Korea Ferry March on Parliament

  More than 30 student survivors of South Korea's ferry disaster marched on parliament on Wednesday to press demands by victims' relatives for an independent inquiry into the tragedy that claimed around 300 lives.

• First Damages Suit Filed Over South Korea Ferry Disaster

  The mother of a student victim of South Korea's ferry disaster has filed a test lawsuit seeking damages from the government and the vessel's owners, a court spokesman said on Friday.

• South Korean Ferry Mishap Toll Rises to 273

  The toll rose to 273 Friday in one of South Korea's deadliest maritime disasters as divers searched the sunken Sewol ferry amid slower tidal currents.

• Volunteer army comforts South Korea ferry disaster families

  A small army of volunteers, offering everything from free taxi rides to laundry services and home-cooked food, has set up camp on the tiny island at the operational heart of South Korea's ferry disaster.

• Korean school tribute leaves empty spaces for unfound ferry victims

  A floral tribute to the children who drowned in a sinking South Korean ferry features photographs of the victims in their school uniforms and lines of empty spaces waiting to be filled with photos as the confirmed death toll rises.

• Classes begin at South Korea school full of mourning

  Students in the city hit hardest by the South Korean ferry disaster returned to classes Thursday, their school campus a tragic landscape of yellow ribbons, chrysanthemums and photos of classmates and teachers who make up the vast majority of the more than 300 people feared dead.

• Boy and girl on South Korean ferry tied life jackets together before they drowned

  A boy and girl trapped in a sinking South Korean ferry with hundreds of other high school students tied their life jacket cords together, a diver who recovered their bodies said, presumably so they wouldn't float apart.

• Grief, anger at memorial for South Korea ferry student victims

  Thousands of mourners paid tearful respects Wednesday at a temporary memorial to the hundreds of student victims of South Korea's ferry disaster, as the grim search for bodies entered a second week.

• Calm, safe waters, but ill-fated Korean ferry may have been going too fast

  It should have been plain sailing for a South Korean ferry carrying hundreds of children and their teachers on an outing to the sub-tropical island of Jeju, an annual trip for Danwon High School.

• Korean gym is a hothouse of grief for relatives of ferry missing

  Kim Ha-na no longer sleeps or eats and is haunted by the voice of her 17-year-old brother, calling frantically to tell her the ferry he was aboard with more than 300 classmates and staff from his high school on the outskirts of Seoul was sinking.

• South Korean relatives divided over whether to raise ferry

  Four days after South Korea's shattering ferry disaster, grieving relatives were split Sunday over whether to approve an end to the search for survivors and let cranes raise the vessel to the surface.

• Sunken Korea ferry relatives give DNA swabs to help identify dead

  Relatives of some of the more than 200 children missing in a sunken South Korean ferry offered DNA swabs on Saturday to help identify the dead as a rescue turned into a mission to recover the vessel and the bodies of those on board.

• DNA test harsh step for families of missing ferry victims

  Providing a DNA sample marked an emotional watershed for Han Mi-Ok - a heart-wrenching acceptance that she was unlikely to ever see her child alive again.