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18 May 2014 Last updated at 22:17 GMT
An agreement has allowed 120 students to leave a besieged refugee camp so they could sit their final exams.
韩国总统朴槿惠再次就导致近300人丧生的世越号海难道歉,并宣布解散海洋警察厅。
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