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Memorials were held throughout the country including at the port of Mokpo in the south where the wreckage of the Sewol is on display.

The overloaded vessel, whose passengers included scores of teachers and university students, went down early Saturday while it was travelling on the Chindwin River in Sagaing region.

At least ten people died and eight are missing after a South Korean fishing charter boat capsized, the coastguard said Sunday, while three survived after clinging to the wreckage for 10 hours.

Overall, 391 people have been rescued from the ferry that was carrying 478 passengers and crew.

South Korean judges handed down a 36 jail sentence to the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank in April with the loss of over 300 lives.

The captain in charge of the Sewol ferry when it sank told a South Korean court Wednesday that he "deserved the death penalty".

Relatives of the victims of South Korea's ferry disaster wept amid angry scenes in court as prosecutors played video footage of the sinking ferry.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye revamped her cabinet, replacing seven ministers in response to intense criticism over ferry disaster.

With South Korean divers still searching for victims of April's ferry disaster, the murder trial of the captain and crew was set to open.

South Korea's ferry disaster has cast a heavy shadow over upcoming local elections for city councils, mayors and provincial governors.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye announced that the widely criticised national coastguard would be dismantled.

Dozens of parents of high school students killed in South Korea's ferry disaster camped out near the presidential Blue House in Seoul.

The 53-year-old was on his first dive at the site and suffered breathing difficulties after reaching a depth of 25 metres.

A probe into South Korea's ferry disaster has heard that warnings over the ship's seaworthiness were ignored.

U.S. President Barack Obama offered his "deepest sympathies" over the deadly sinking of a South Korean ferry.

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