Seven people have been injured in a fire which forced the emergency evacuation of a plane on a runway in South Korea. The blaze occurred moments before take-off and may have been caused by a portable battery stored in an overhead bin, local media reported. The Air Busan plane, an Airbus A321, was due to […]
By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s authorities investigating last month’s Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the U.N. aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States, France and Thailand, an official said on Monday. The investigation into the deadliest air disaster on the country’s soil remains […]
The Seoul skyline. Mongkol Chuewong | Moment | Getty Images South Korea’s fourth-quarter GDP missed estimates Thursday, with weakness in consumption and the construction sector driving growth to a six-quarter low of 1.2%, year on year. Advance figures missed the 1.4% expansion expected by economists polled by Reuters, and the growth was also softer compared […]
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s transport ministry said on Wednesday that it would remove the concrete embankment installed at Muan International Airport following last month’s Jeju Air crash, its deadliest domestic air disaster. While investigators are still probing what caused Jeju Air flight 7C2216 to crash, including reported bird strikes, experts have […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – JANUARY 15: Investigators arrive at the entrance to the presidential residence of Yoon Suk Yeol, as authorities try to execute an arrest warrant, in Seoul, South Korea, on January 15, 2025. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested Wednesday by the country’s Corruption Investigation […]
Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday. Officials probing the country’s deadliest aviation accident in almost three decades had hoped information from the so-called black boxes would shed light […]
Every day for the past week, Kim Kwon-seop, 72, has joined thousands of others gathered near the home of South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol. They were determined to shield Mr. Yoon from prosecutors who wanted to detain him on insurrection charges stemming from his short-lived declaration of martial law last month. To them, […]
Should the United States follow the surgeon general’s call on Friday for cancer warning labels on alcohol, it would join a tiny contingent of nations that advise drinkers of the risk. The World Health Organization concluded in 1988 that alcohol is carcinogenic to humans, and it has for years said that the harms of alcohol […]
When around 100 criminal investigators and police officers entered a hilly compound in central Seoul on Friday morning, they tried to achieve something that has never been done before in South Korea: detain a sitting president. First, they made it through two blockades formed by parked vehicles and people. Then, when they came within 650 […]
Hundreds of people were forced to flee a fire that broke out in an eight-story commercial building south of Seoul Friday afternoon, with video footage showing several people trapped on the roof waiting to be rescued. Fire officials received reports of the fire around 4:40 p.m. in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, and were at the scene […]
