Opportunities rise

When Joe Song was born in 1957, Korea was still reeling from the damage of the Korean War. Although the fighting in that conflict had stopped four years earlier, the nation was poverty-stricken, while Seoul was devastated and virtually undeveloped. Song and his family made their way to the United States for a better life in 1970, leaving behind a country Koreans knew as "The Land of the Morning Calm." A quarter century later in 1996, Song would return to Korea as the senior manager of McDonnell-Douglas' MD-95 Korea program (which later became the 717 Korea Program for Boeing) and find Seoul was completely transforming itself into one of the world's most dynamic cities.

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Past milestones, bright future: A timeline of key events

	1950 Douglas C-47 (the military version of the DC-3) crews fly 4,689 casualties out of the Chosin Reservoir area in five days during the Korean War.		1971 Korean Air accepts its first airplane directly from Boeing, a new 707.		2004 Korean Air takes delivery of its 100th Boeing airplane, a 747-400 Extended Range Freighter.
	1950>>		1970>>		2004>>

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