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I'm at the fabulous new Naver internet lounge at Incheon Airport waiting for another trip to the U.S., the second this summer.  Will catch up on posting summer photos this week, I hope. 
 
This trip, hope to get Cal settled into college and other stuff.
 
 

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The Earth Times
Aug 11, 2008 - 7:00:00 AM
Vietnam Airlines has decided to sue a passenger who opened an airplane's emergency door at an airport in Taiwan this month, a company executive said Friday. The passenger, Le Van Hanh, 26, of Vietnam, would face charges of serious violation of aviation safety regulations, airline spokesman Trinh Ngoc Thanh said.

Hanh was sitting August 2 in the 15th row on the right side of an Airbus A321 plane being towed to the runway at Taipei's international airport when he pulled the handle of the emergency door, which caused an emergency slide to deploy.

"His act delayed the flight for two hours and cost significant damage to Vietnam Airlines," Thanh said.

The spokesman said Vietnam Airlines decided to sue Hanh to defray the costs of the delay and to encourage other passengers to follow safety regulations.

"Luckily, the emergency door and slide can only be opened when the plane is on the ground, not when it is flying high in the sky," Thanh said. "We are calculating the cost of the damage and finalising the procedures for the case."

In separate cases in 2007, courts in Vietnam sentenced two Vietnam Airlines passengers to 10 months and 12 months of probation and fined them 14,200 and 18,500 dollars for claiming to have placed bombs on airplanes.

By Hwang Doo-hyong
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (Yonhap) --
South Korea was the seventh-biggest
provider of new U.S. citizens last year,
following Mexico, India , the
Philippines, China, Vietnam and the
Dominican Republic, U.S. government
statistics showed Wednesday.

As many as 17,628 South Koreans
obtained U.S. citizenship last year, according to the figures.
That brings to 174,453 the number of South Koreans who have
become naturalized Americans in the past decade.