The transport ministry instructed nine low-cost carriers to improve safety standards and avoid prioritising cost-cutting.
South Korea Enacts a Change
The nation’s transport ministry reviewed structures near airport runways after the deadly crash of a Jeju Air flight late last month.
South Korea’s transport ministry has announced measures to increase scrutiny of the country’s LCCs in the wake of the fatal Jeju Air crash in December. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) held a meeting with the CEOs of nine LCCs in Seoul to discuss the changes and airline...
South Korea will tear down concrete walls at several airports, including Muan International Airport, after the Jeju Air plane crash in December.
South Korean officials sent the voice recorder to be analyzed at an NTSB lab in the US after they discovered data was missing.
SEOUL: South Korean authorities said on Wednesday (Jan 22) they will change the concrete barriers used for navigation at some airports across the country after the Jeju Air cra
Son Chang-wan, a former president of the state-run Korea Airports Corporation, who spearheaded a controversial facility upgrade at Muan International Airport, was found dead at his home in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province,
South Korea will remove concrete embankments from airports after the county’s deadliest domestic air disaster. The wall installed at Muan International Airport will be removed following December’s Jeju Air crash that killed almost 200 people.
North Korea's KCNA did not mention either whether leader Kim Jong Un had attended the sessions, nor did it report any decisions on foreign policy.
South Korea will remove a concrete structure at the runway of one of its southern airports, the scene of a plane crash that killed all but two of the 181 people on board last month
Following the deadly Jeju Air accident, the government ordered low cost carriers to reduce flight times, boost pilot training and expand maintenance crews.