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Korean Air flies high on Asia's boom FREE FLOW / The business of transport
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International Herald Tribune
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September 15, 2005
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Choe Sang-Hun
International Herald Tribune
09-15-2005
When Korean Air began running cargo flights to the United States in 1971, company executives knocked on the hotel-room doors of American businessmen importing wigs, then a major export item from South Korea, begging them to try an airline they had hardly heard of.Three decades later, Korean Air is now the largest carrier of airfreight on international routes. Riding on South Korea's booming technology industry, the airline now carries semiconductors, flat-panel TV screens and cellphones to 38 destinations in 25 countries.''We owe our success to the government's policy of encouraging exports,'' Cho Yang Ho, chairman of Korean Air, said ...
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