South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, encourages a crying mother and a girl during a meeting with parents whose children are now missing in Ship Sewol at a gymnasium in Jindo, South Korea on April 17. Fears rose Thursday for the fate of more than 280 passengers, many from a high school on a school trip, still missing more than 24 hours after their ferry flipped onto its side and filled with water off the southern coast of South Korea. (AP Photo)
