In 2016, U.N. aviation agency ICAO banned passenger planes from carrying lithium batteries as cargo. This followed fatal crashes of a UPS freighter in Dubai in 2010, and an Asiana Airlines cargo plane in South Korea in 2011, after intense fires broke out in holds carrying such batteries.

Starting on March 1, passengers boarding flights in South Korea will be required to carry portable batteries and chargers, as well as e-cigarette,s on their person rather than storing them in overhead bins.

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South Korea's Agency for Defense Development and Korean Air have rolled out a technology demonstrator for a new unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) at an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) show in Busan.