In the latest update on the Jeju Air crash on January 6, MOLIT said that it has extended the closure of Muan International until January 14, citing the o

Bereaved families and political figures visit a memorial altar set up near the Muan International Airport to honor the 179 victims of Sunday’s Jeju Air plane crash.

Relatives of the victims of a fatal plane fire in South Korea on Wednesday visited Muan airport, the site of the disaster. All but two of the 181 people aboard the Boeing 737-800 operated by South Korean budget airline Jeju Air died in Sunday's crash.

South Korean investigators said Friday they expected to find more human remains as they began lifting the wreckage of the Jeju Air jet that crashed on landing last weekend killing all but two of the 181 passengers and crew aboard.

Jeju Air 7C2216, which departed from Bangkok for Muan, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport's runway, exploding into flames after hitting an embankment.

Investigators on Saturday compiled the complete transcript from the cockpit voice recorder recovered from the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800.

Joo Jong-wan, the deputy transport minister for civil aviation, acknowledged that safety measures were not sufficient when building the embankment, but said they were done in line

South Korea plans to review the concrete walls positioned just beyond the end of some airport runways after an aircraft attempting an emergency landing smashed into one just over a week ago, killing almost everyone on board.

South Korea's transport minister Park Sang-woo said on Tuesday that he intends to step down from his position to take responsibility for the deadly crash of Jeju Air's Boeing jet on December 29, which killed 179 people on board.

After a Jeju Air plane crash-landed in southwestern South Korea in December 2024, killing all but two of the 181 people on board, a clip was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed footage from inside the passenger cabin before the crash.