South Korea's transport minister Park Sang-woo said on Tuesday that he intends to step down from his position to take responsibility for the deadly crash of Jeju Air's Boeing jet on December 29, which killed 179 people on board.

Search operations at the site of the Jeju Air plane crash concluded on Saturday, one week after the devastating accident claimed 179 lives. Officials announced that all 179 bodies have been recovered, with 151 already returned to their families along with identified personal belongings.

The South Korean authorities have extended the closure of a south-western airport where a Jeju Air plane crashed and killed 179 people on board, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said on Jan.

The temporary closure of Muan Airport has been extended until January 14 as the investigation into the Jeju Air crash continues.

Park Sang-woo, the Minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (국토교통부, MOLIT) of South Korea, has said that he would resign following the Jeju Air crash that happened on December 29, 2024.

Relatives of the victims of a fatal plane fire in South Korea on Wednesday visited Muan airport, the site of the disaster. All but two of the 181 people aboard the Boeing 737-800 operated by South Korean budget airline Jeju Air died in Sunday's crash.

Investigators on Saturday compiled the complete transcript from the cockpit voice recorder recovered from the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800.

Jeju Air 7C2216, which departed from Bangkok for Muan, belly-landed and overshot the regional airport's runway, exploding into flames after hitting an embankment.

South Korean authorities have extended the closure of a southwestern airport where a Jeju Air plane crashed and killed 179 people onboard, the land ministry said Monday.