The government will develop an indigenous tracking system for aircraft by 2014.

Costing eight-point-six billion won ($7.5 million) to develop, the next-generation system will help to enhance flight safety for all types of planes.

The Transport Ministry says the new reception system will allow for accurate information to be relayed to control towers every second from up to 370 kilometers away, with a focus on aircraft that fly at low altitudes of between 12-hundred and three-thousand meters in mountainous terrain.

The flight relay information can be picked up by conventional mobile devices at control towers, making it both economical and comparatively easy to run.