BUSAN, South Korea -- President Moon Jae-in has a grand plan to build a glittering new airport in the southeastern South Korean port city of Busan, as part of a project to "bring together the sky, sea and land to create a world-class logistics hub."
South Korea's second city of Busan is traditionally a conservative area, and has inched further to the right in recent years in apparent frustration with the ruling party's failure to revive the regional economy.
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