SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest annual short film festival will open in Seoul next month with 59 titles from 31 countries up for competition, organizers said Tuesday. The 13th edition of the Asiana International Short Film Festival is scheduled to take place at Cine Cube and Art Nine, both art theaters [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Gyeong-cheol, a 35-year-old pilot for Asiana Airlines Inc., thought he had found his lifetime job when he first entered the company years ago. Following grueling training and tests, he was proud and made a promise to himself to stay with the country’s second-largest flag carrier till the end [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been revealed that among the 12 cabin crew members who were on board the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed at the San Francisco Airport, eight have filed lawsuits for compensation against the airline and the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing. In July 2013, a Boeing 777 jet operated by the South [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean pilots are leaving local airlines, data showed Friday, apparently for better salaries and working conditions abroad. According to the data by the transportation ministry, the number of pilots who left top flag carrier Korean Air Lines during the January-July period stood at 42. This is compared with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines barely reversed the verdict on an ordinary wage lawsuit filed by its laborers, but it cannot smile as the court revealed its poor financial status. According to airline industry watchers on September 3, the Seoul High Court sided with Asiana Airlines, reversing a lower court’s ruling that regular [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines, South Korea’s No. 2 flag carrier, said Wednesday it plans to eliminate almost all its first-class seats from its international flights as part of an effort to cut losses. The first-class seat system usually leads to high costs, but most airlines have been holding on to the operations [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – To revitalize Korea’s tourism industry and domestic demand dented by the recent outbreak of the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, the “Korea Grand Sale” will run for 79 days from August 14 to October 31. The Visit Korea Committee announced on August 11 that this year’s Korea Grand Sale would [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines, South Korea’s second-largest flag carrier, has been sued for allegedly causing serious burns to a female passenger on board one of its planes last year. The passenger in her mid-30s, identified only by her last name Jang, has filed a lawsuit seeking 200 million won (US$171,000) in [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean companies are rushing to step up their emergency response efforts to better protect their employees from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which is showing signs of a wide spread in South Korea. South Korea remains gripped by the potentially deadly disease that has claimed six lives so far [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of sick leaves among flight attendants at two Korean national airlines is 10 times higher than the number among airline workers on the ground. Jet lag, night shifts, exposure to cosmic radiation and emotional burdens are estimated to contribute to the high number. According to a paper [...]