We have a correspondent on site - our Ji Myung-kil joins us live.
Myung-kil, ** more bodies are being retrieved - we see that, but no news of survivors...
Unfortunately, that is the case, Conn-young.
As you said the confirmed death toll continues to rise,... and because of that a temporary
funeral parlor will be set up here at Paengmok-hang harbor.
Two Chinese and one Russian bodies were found yesterday but one Chinese body was not listed
on the government's missing list... raising questions to the credibility of the government's
figures.
Divers are focusing on searching the third and fourth floors today, where many high school
students were when the ferry started capsizing.
Family members of the missing who have been camping out here at Paengmok-hang harbor have
been gathering around the list of victims,... trying to match the descriptions with their
loved ones.
Parents broke down into tears when their child's body was confirmed.
Some family members shouted out at reporters saying their privacy should be respected and
not to reveal the identities of their sons and daughters.
Still, more than 150 people remain missing and nearly 90 percent of those are from a
single high school - that is Danwon High School in Ansan, a largely working-class suburb of
Seoul.
A very tragic event, indeed.
Now, ** the international community is also lending a helping hand, aren't they?
Yes, that's right.
The U.S. said Monday it plans to send a Navy salvage ship to Korea in recovery of the ferry.
The ship is designed to repair or salvage ships crippled in combat anywhere around the
world.
Since yesterday...
two remotely operated underwater drones from the U.S. are assisting the search operations...
and three experts from the Netherlands are helping as well.
Korean authorities have also asked China to borrow barges and cranes.
Today 239 vessels, 32 aircraft and over 750 divers are deployed for the search operation.
This was Ji Myung-kil reporting from Paengmok-hang harbor.