SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the Czech Republic have
agreed to increase the maximum number of commercial flights connecting
the two countries to seven per week, the transport ministry said Friday.

The agreement to raise the current ceiling of four flights per week was
reached during bilateral aviation talks held in Prague on Wednesday and
Thursday.

Korean Air, which started operating the Incheon-Prague route in May
2004, has transported a cumulative total of around 1.5 million
passengers.

Czech Airlines, the flag carrier of the Czech Republic, also operated
this route for about seven years from June 2013 but suspended flights
due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company continues to maintain a code-
sharing arrangement with Korean Air.

The ministry said the results of the aviation talks have provided an
opportunity to strengthen cooperation between the two countries in
various fields, such as technology, economy and culture.

The announcement follows this week''s news of South Korea''s state-run
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power being selected as the preferred bidder of a
multimillion-dollar nuclear power project to build two reactors in at
the Dukovany power plant in the Czech Republic.

Industry and Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun (L) gives a briefing at the
government complex in Sejong, 113 kilometers south of Seoul, on July 18,
2024, regarding the Czech government''s selection of a South Korean
consortium led by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power as the preferred bidder
for its nuclear reactor project. (Yonhap)
Industry and Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun (L) gives a briefing at the
government complex in Sejong, 113 kilometers south of Seoul, on July 18,
2024, regarding the Czech government''s selection of a South Korean
consortium led by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power as the preferred bidder
for its nuclear reactor project. (Yonhap)