The government estimates that South Korea's airline industry has created about 14-thousand jobs this year.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said on Sunday that the country's nine flag carriers hired over 41-hundred people this year, up 22-point-seven percent from a year earlier.

Flight attendants accounted for the largest part of the newly hired people at over 17-hundred, followed by some 930 pilots.

The ministry said nearly four-thousand-250 jobs were created in relation to the opening of a second terminal at Incheon International Airport and related facilities.

The drone-related industries created some two thousand jobs, while projects to expand the facilities in the airports of Incheon, Gimpo and Gimhae witnessed an increase of over three thousand people hired.