The number of flights between Gimpo International Airport and Chinese destinations has recovered to pre-pandemic levels, according to the Korea Airports Corp. (KAC), Monday. The airport operator said the total weekly flights between Gimpo and the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai returned to 56 as of Sunday, after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hyundai Motor and three mobile carriers - SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus - are vying for leadership in urban air mobility (UAM) as they prepare to kick off demonstration projects for air taxi service, which is expected to begin commercial operation in 2025, according to the government and the companies, Wednesday.
In January, Koreans received a text message from the government that a U.S. satellite was falling out of orbit and there was a possibility that the debris would strike the Korean Peninsula. If parts of the satellite had collided with a nuclear power plant, a skyscraper and so on, it would have been a disaster.
The operation of Jeju International Airport, the gateway to the South Korean resort island, was again disrupted by inclement weather on Friday, only three days after its operational paralysis.At present, wind shear and strong wind warnings are .
Many vacation-starved Koreans are expected to spend this Lunar New Year holiday abroad, celebrating the first major national holiday without quarantine measures for travelers. During Chuseok last September, travelers had to go through several remaining measures, such as submitting negative PCR results within one day after their return to Korea.