A New Look for Korean Airlines

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A New Look for Korean Airlines

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What We Know So Far

It appears that Korean Airlines, the flag carrier of South Korea, has quietly unveiled a new livery on one of their 787-10s. Information on the new aircraft is sparse, and it doesn’t appear there’s any official statement from the airline regarding it. The livery is much simpler than their iconic Pepsi-esque livery, which is worn on most of their fleet. The redesign seems to be following the modernizing trend of removing color and, frankly, character from aircraft. It’s similar to what KLM did.

So far, it seems that only HL-8515 has received the new paint job. It’s unclear when other members of the Korean Air fleet will be repainted.

My Personal Thoughts

Personally, I really don’t like the redesign. It’s a massive downgrade, and it feels like it removes most of the Korean flair from the aircraft. The blue color is pretty unappealing, and the removal of the red is unfortunate. The font is really bland - it may as well be a private equity firm logo.

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Nice topic but, what a downgrade :pensive:

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The yin & yang aspect of the old livery is practically gone now…

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Thats another lazy livery in the ever growing list of lazy liveries

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Nice article, but like Andrew said: it’s lazy. It’s so bad :sob:

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It’s just really uncreative and boring.

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I think they might be only painting 1 plane so that they can decide whether to keep it or not based on the worlds perspective

Btw it looks horrible

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Ah yes I love flying

:sparkles:K O R E A N :sparkles:
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Just terrible imo. Especially remaining with the blue livery

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IMO its objectively a nice-looking livery but in the context of Korean Air’s iconic look, this is a huge downgrade.

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Looks like a downgraded KLM livery

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An atrocity.

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What an upgrade in my opinion lol!

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What aspects of the new livery do you think make it better than the older one?

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I like it. Kind of resembles a shark with the white belly and blue back. The logo is like a cave drawing. No colors, only a shape. I’m interested to see this livery on other aircraft

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I get they are trying to be sleek and modern, but the one old was just so nice. I remember seeing it on an A380 in April 2020, and thinking to myself what a beautiful plane. I can’t say the same thing now.

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It’s awful and the new style logo loses the essence of how quickly you can identify Korean’s brand. :face_vomiting:

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Personally I just think I like the color more, the red and light blue didn’t look the best, not a good combination

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It’s been said many times before, but it has to be said: the new livery is absolute abomination.

Btw is this actually real???

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I feel like I’ll get used to the new livery eventually but I hate the modern look so much. They just sucked all the color and fun out of a beautiful livery.

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Yes, it is real.

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