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Business Week:
World’s Best Airports 2009

In the annual survey of airport service quality by Geneva-based Airports Council International (ACI), Asian airports—Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Nagoya, Japan—won four of the five top spots. Nova Scotia’s Halifax was the only non-Asian airport to be included in the top five:

1. Seoul

21. Taipei, Taiwan (also ranked no. 1 in the world among airports serving between 15 million and 25 million passengers annually).

José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport was named after after a famous Ecuadorian poet and the first mayor of the city of Guayaquil.
Ranks: number 8 airport in the world; the best airport in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of service quality.

From:
english.kbs.co.kr

date: Friday, November 14, 2008 16:11:02

DMZ to Become Worldwide Environmental Attraction

Reports find the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating South and North Korea has a well-preserved ecology, containing organisms even on the verge of extinction.

A joint inspection team comprised of officials from the Ministry of Environment and various other organizations completed comprehensive research of the DMZ for the first time in 50 years.

Around 180 organisms, 13 of which are national treasures or rarities, were discovered.

The team said the DMZ could become a worldwide attraction with its combination of wetlands, grasslands, valleys and organisms.

The government plans to use data gathered from the research to create an ecological park near the heavily fortified zone, after which Seoul will request UNESCO designate the area a biosphere reserve.

( Reported by KBS WORLD Radio. )

photo by hiro oshima

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