SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. said Tuesday that it has instructed its flight attendants to more actively consider the use of force, including tasers, during cases of in-flight violence. The move follows a widely publicized incident where a 35-year-old South Korean man went on a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s air passenger traffic has reached a new high on a sharp increase in international passengers to and from the country, the transportation ministry said Monday. Air passenger traffic has already reached over 100 million as of Monday, breaching the 100 million mark for the first time in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will set up a new air traffic flow management system before the end of next year to enhance airport safety while also improving airline services by greatly reducing flight delays, the government said Monday. Such a system will be up and running before the end of July [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea Aerospace University scientists have discovered the fundamentals of insect flight, using a newly developed “insect robot”. According to the team, most insects use a flying method that creates spiraling vortices around the wings, which allows for stable flight even in sudden gusts. Although there have been scientific studies [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it has no plan to ban the use of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 7 on planes following the company’s global recall of the smartphones for battery problems. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said that it has been reviewing whether to prevent people [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday that it has agreed, in principle, with France to increase the number of weekly passenger flights between Incheon and Paris to 14 from the current 12. The deal was reached in a meeting of aviation officials between the two countries in Paris earlier this week, [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A Jin Air flight made an emergency landing in Japan with no injuries, said Jin Air Co., the budget unit of Korean Air Lines Co., on Monday. The pilot of the Boeing 737-800 realized there was a hydraulic system malfunction about 9:30 a.m., a failure that kept its landing gear [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoulite purchased a plane ticket from Incheon to Hong Kong for 368,600 won ($310) in July 2015. But when he tried to cancel the trip a few months later, he was charged 216,000 won ($181) in cancellation fees. As such, there are instances where airline companies either charge [...]