The tragic aviation accidents that happened worldwide this year have sparked discussions on improving aviation safety.

A flight map of the doomed ... a route over Vietnam, the South China Sea, and East China Sea before making an approach for the airport in south-west South Korea about four and a half hours later.

In the 1960s, GDP per capita was comparable with levels in the poorest countries in the world. In 2004, South Korea's GDP surpassed one trillion dollars. Beginning in the 1960s under President ...