New Korean hub becomes "ghost airport"
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A new US$250 million South Korean airport has not received a single passenger in the last three months, The Age has reported. Yangyang International Airport, on the country’s east coast, reportedly handled its last flight on 1 November, with airport’s state-run owning company, Korea Airport Corporation, reportedly admitting that last year 146 airport staff served a daily average of just 26 passengers.
The seven year-old airport was built at a cost of KRW356.7 billion US$259 million) to promote regional tourism, but has posted an annual deficit of more than KRW10 billion for the past three consecutive years, The Age report added.
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