Dense fog cancels 115 flights in South Korea
June 21, 2010 00:00:00
SEOUL, June 20 (AFP): Dense fog Sunday forced the cancellation of 115 flights in and out of South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju, airport officials said.
It prevented 2,200 mostly domestic passengers from flying in or out of the popular holiday island.
"It is very rare to cancel flights en masse like this due to abnormal weather conditions here," Son Yi-Ja, who handles traffic at Jeju airport, told the news agency.
Thick fog shrouded the airport from morning to late afternoon and caused extremely low visibility, the official said.