South Korea plans to enhance its regulation of domestic low-cost carriers and impose strict penalties on those that do not comply with new safety standards, Yonhap News Agency reported. On Park Sang-woo,

The South Korean government will review safety systems associated with emergency landings at airports across the country following the fatal Jeju Air crash, which killed 179 people. The plan includes removing the concrete embankment at Muan International Airport.

The authorities said they will make new foundations or other adjustments at Muan and six other airports. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL: South Korean authorities said on Wednesday (Jan 22) they will change the concrete barriers used for navigation at some airports across the country after the Jeju Air cra

The two flight recorders on board a South Korean airliner stopped working before the jet crashed during an emergency landing and subsequent crash that killed 179 of the 181 people on board, officials said 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.

South Korea will change the concrete barriers used for navigation at nine airports across the country following December's plane crash that killed 179 people. Seven airports will also have their runway safety areas adapted following a review of all South Korea's airports that was carried out after the crash - the deadliest in the country's history.

South Korea will extend runway safety areas and redesign infrastructure after the crash of a Jeju Air Co. flight last month that killed almost everyone on board, sparking criticism that the design of the airport might have exacerbated the accident.

South Korean authorities said on Wednesday they will change the concrete barriers used for navigation at some airports across the country after the Jeju Air crash that left 179 people dead.