Korea and African countries will hold their inaugural talks in South Africa next week to enhance cooperation in critical minerals, following up on the agreement reached at last year's summit, Seoul's foreign ministry said Friday.

The presidential chief of staff, Chung Jin-suk, and other senior aides met President Yoon Suk Yeol at the Seoul Detention Center on Friday, presidential officials said.

An Air Busan plane caught fire at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday (January 28) while preparing for departure to Hong Kong. All 169 passengers and seven crew members were evacuated,

A passenger plane has caught fire before takeoff at an airport in South Korea, but all 176 people on board have been safely evacuated.

A month after the deadliest aviation disaster on South Korean soil, a fire destroyed another passenger jet in the country.

All passengers were safely evacuated when fire ripped through an Air Busan Airbus with 176 on board in South Korea on Tuesday. Newsweek reached out to Airbus and Air Busan for comment via email on Wednesday.

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The testimonies of some passengers suggest the fire broke out at an overhead compartment. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The incident comes in the wake of 179 people dying when a plane skidded off a runway at a different airport in the country last month.

A vessel drifting in the Caribbean Sea contained 19 badly decomposed bodies, at least some from Mali, authorities in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis announced on Wednesday.

An Air Busan flight awaiting departure to Hong Kong caught fire at Busan's Gimhae International Airport in southern South Korea. All 176 passengers and crew were evacuated before the flames destroyed the plane.