When Jeju Air’s status as South Korea’s biggest low-cost carrier seemed under threat from the merger of the country’s two biggest airlines last year, the company’s CEO assured employees that it would “actively respond,

After overcoming pariah status at the end of the last century, South Korea must learn what caused the catastrophe on Dec. 29 and what lessons to draw from it.

The Jeju Air plane burst into flames after veering off a runway and slamming into a wall at an airport in the South Korean city of Muan.