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South Korea's transport ministry said that it planned to conduct a safety inspection of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft in the country, per Yonhap News. The Boeing 737-800 is a popular aircraft that ...
Jeju is South Korea's biggest low-cost airline. The Boeing 737-800 crashed while trying to land at South Korea's Muan International Airport at 9:03 a.m. 179 of the 181 people on board were killed ...
A Jeju Air passenger plane carrying 181 people skidded down the runway at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday, December 29, before crashing. Yonhap news agency, citing firefighting ...
The Jeju Air crash in South Korea is an outlier in a country considered to be a gold standard for airline safety. ... the editor from Airline News, told BI. He added that Jeju Air had an ...
Jeju (Jeju: 제줏말; Jeju RR: Jejunmal, or Korean: 제주어; RR: Jejueo, or 제주말; Jejumal), often called Jejueo or Jejuan in English-language scholarship, is a Koreanic language originally from Jeju Island, South Korea. [2] It is not mutually intelligible with mainland Korean dialects.
There are five local newspapers on Jeju Island: Jeju Ilbo, [114] Jemin Ilbo, [115] Halla Ilbo, [116] Seogwipo News, [117] and Jeju Maeil. [118] [119] The Jeju Weekly is the only print English-language newspaper on the island. [120] JejuWorldWide.com is a daily online news and events Web site that opened in early 2013. [121]
Jeju is a volcanic island, dominated by Hallasan: a volcano 1,947 metres (6,388 ft) high and the highest mountain in South Korea. The island measures approximately 73 kilometres (45 mi) across, east to west, and 41 kilometres (25 mi) from north to south. [ 23 ]
Jeju Air 7C2216 was flying from the Thai capital of Bangkok to Muan in southwestern South Korea at night when it belly-landed, overshot the runway and burst into flames after hitting an embankment.