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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: Build it and they will come airport? |
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There was a round up of "silly news" in the paper the other day. One of the items was this:
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| A town in South Korea which spent some 140 million dollars to build its own airport was then forced to admit that no airlines actually wanted to fly there. |
Any idea what town and airport this is? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I saw an ad for a snazzy international airport in Cheongju. The picture showed this brilliant building, sitting on the edge of a hideously empty field. Not sure if that's the one. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Pretty sure that would be Yangyang International Airport in Gangwondo.
On completion a couple years ago it claimed to be the 3rd largest airport in Korea, capable of handling the largest planes & 2 million passengers a year.
Currently it handles 3 small Asiana flights a week to & from Busan. Thats it.
It effectively killed air service for residents of Gangneung & Sokcho. Gangneung already had a serviceable airport with decent service to Seoul & Busan, & Sokcho had daily flights to Gimpo (in good weather) but both were shut down when Yangyang opened. |
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Poor Lazarus
Joined: 31 Jan 2006
Location: Andong
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Pretty sure that would be Yangyang International Airport in Gangwondo.
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I flew into Yangyang this year in what was the only flight in that day....it was bizarre.
Here you have this brand new airport and on our flight there would have been lucky to have been 30 people on the only flight all day....you could see everybody was just waiting for us to get out as they can shut up shop and go home.
If you are a permanent worker there must be one of the easiest jobs in the world. |
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