Students hold signs with messages of hope for the return of their missing friends who were on the Sewol ferry, which sank in the sea off Jindo, at Danwon High School in Ansan April 17, 2014.
A Chinese schoolgirl was among the 271 missing passengers after a South Korean ferry capsized and left 26 dead.
The number of confirmed deaths in the ferry sinking off South Korea jumps to 25, as a growing number of bodies were found floating in the sea apparently due to current shifts.
A Chinese schoolgirl is confirmed to be among the hundred missing passengers aboard captized South Korean ferry, according to the Chinese embassy.
Teenagers send heart-wrenching messages to parents as ferry tilts
Kim Jeong-keun woke up on his cabin bed to find out his friends had smeared lipstick on his face while he had been asleep, a prank harking back to their school days.
Two Chinese nationals were confirmed to be among the more than 270 passengers unaccounted for on Thursday as rescue efforts continued.
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang extended condolences after a South Korean ferry accident left 14 people dead and 283 others, including two Chinese nationals, missing.
Search for some 290 people, mostly teenage schoolchildren, who are still missing after a ferry capsized off South Korea's southwest coast, continued into the second the day on Thursday.
A South Korean passenger ferry, which sank in waters off the country's southwestern coast on Wednesday, was strongly believed to have undergone a sudden turn in direction.
Military divers fought rising winds and waves on Thursday as they searched for hundreds of people believed to be still trapped inside a ferry that sank off South Korea's southern coast.
A family member of missing passengers who were on the South Korean Sewol ferry, which has sunk, reacts after seeing the upturned ferry in the sea off Jindo April 17, 2014.