A dedicated government task force to support the families of the victims of last month's Jeju Air Co. plane crash has officially begun operations, the transport ministry said Monday. The task force will take over the responsibilities of an integrated support center established on Dec.

The nation’s transport ministry reviewed structures near airport runways after the deadly crash of a Jeju Air flight late last month.

Before it suffered the deadliest crash in South Korea's history, budget airline Jeju Air was moving fast: racking up record passenger numbers and flying its aircraft more than domestic rivals and many of its global peers,

SEOUL: South Korea's central bank said on Monday (Jan 20) it had slashed its 2025 growth forecast because of the political crisis triggered by President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law last month.

A former transport ministry accident investigator said the discovery suggests all power, including backup, may have been cut, which is rare.

The black boxes of the crashed Jeju Air plane stopped recording flight data four minutes before the aircraft crashed in the worst accident in South Korean aviation history, the Ministry of Transport reported on Saturday.

The two black boxes on the Boeing jet involved in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, the transport ministry said on Saturday. South Korean investigators previously said the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were key to finding out the cause of last month's crash that killed 179 people.

SEOUL: South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday that the black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the crashed Jeju Air flight that left 179 people dead stopped recording four minutes before the disaster. On December 29 ...

Seoul: South Korea’s transport ministry revealed Saturday that the black boxes from the Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people stopped recording four minutes before the disaster.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has decided to extend to April 18 the shutdown of Muan international airport where a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed last month, the transport ministry said on Saturday. The airport is the site of the Dec. 29 crash of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 jet that killed 179 passengers on board.

CEO Kim moved to AIR SEOUL during the regular executive reshuffle of Hanjin Group on the 15th. He joined Korean Air in 1991 and has served in various roles including passenger marketing, passenger route sales, and as branch manager in Fukuoka, Osaka, and Jeju.