Ever since they stopped looking for my daughter's remains

On 16 April 2014, a ferry capsized off South Korea's southern coast killing 304 people of whom 250 were high school students, in one of South Korea's most high-profile maritime disasters. The BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul finds that one year on, some families are still demanding answers. At a press conference in Seoul recently, the wailing of one of the mothers was uncontrollable. She talked calmly at first of the pain of losing her bright and funny daughter, but then broke down and howled in bottomless grief.
 The teenager had gone on a school trip full of hope and promise, but never returned and the rupture in her mother's love was unbearable. In the run-up to the first anniversary, there have been many protests but none so powerful as this public eruption of a mother's inconsolable grief. Later, in the quiet of her home Lee Keum-hui and her husband, Cho Nam-sung, showed the BBC with pride photographs of Eun-hwa, the daughter whose loss had prompted the public outpouring. The mother showed the records she still keeps on her phone of those last calls from her daughter. In those calls from the stricken vessel, Eun-hwa expressed her worry that the ship was tilting. She was concerned at the fears of her fellow passengers, her school friends from Danwon High School. Not only did Eun-hwa not return but her remains have not been found. She is one of nine victims of whom there is no trace.
Their families want the Sewol raised because the absence of remains impedes the process of grief and of mourning. Her mother told the BBC: "It really hurts. The anger boils up. My heart feels as if it's about to burn". And Eun-hwa's father said: "It's been unbearable having to live a whole year in grief. Ever since they stopped looking for my daughter's remains, my sadness has turned to anger against the government." One year on, this anger is widespread among the bereaved families. In the case of the nine, it is particularly about the failure to raise the vessel, though President Park Geun-hye said recently that she would "actively consider" it. The ministry of oceans and fisheries estimates the cost of lifting the 6,825-tonne passenger ship at $110m (£75m).
 Beyond the nine families whose loved ones remain untraced, there is also a wider anger at what many of the families and their political supporters see as a failure to hold an open and independent enquiry. Political weapon One year after the tragedy, a promised official parliamentary investigation into the sinking has been held back by disagreements over funding and who should run it.