Pura Vida!
Posted on July 14, 2018
Digital addicts will be relieved to know they’ll never have to wait too long for their internet fix in South Korea. The country was judged to have the world’s fastest internet connection speed for the 12th consecutive quarter last year, according to Akamai - the content delivery network (CDN) responsible for serving between 15 and 30 per cent of all web traffic.
Posted on July 8, 2018
Jeju is the capital of an island, Jejudo, which might just be the most popular holiday destination you’ve never heard of. Unesco-listed, and billed as South Korea’s answer to Hawaii, it's pure Instagram gold, and home to dramatic volcanic landscapes, underground caves, hiking trails and scenic beaches. Halla Mountain, at 1,940m above sea level, is South Korea’s highest peak, while the cone of Seongsan Ilchulbong, or “Sunrise Peak”, is particularly spectacular.
The most crowded flight path on Earth is the 280-mile hop from Seoul to Jeju International. More than 26 million passengers use Jeju airport each year - that’s more than any UK airport bar Gatwick and Heathrow. There were a staggering 64,991 departures between these two airports in 2017 – that works out at around 178 a day.
| From | To | Monthly Passengers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeju International | Seoul Gimpo | 1,284,989 |
| 2 | Sapporo New Chitose | Tokyo Haneda | 688,394 |
| 3 | Melbourne | Sydney Kingsford Smith | 663,037 |
| 4 | Fukuoka | Tokyo Haneda | 622,882 |
| 5 | Delhi | Mumbai | 537,186 |