Korean Nut Rage

[J]

Even though Daddy is the airline's Chairman, Little Heather Cho has to behave:

Ex-Korean Air executive sentenced to prison in 'nut rage' case

A former Korean Air vice president was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday for ordering a plane in New York to return to its gate after becoming furious over how her macadamia nuts were served.

Heather Cho, who also goes by her Korean name of Cho Hyun-ah, ordered the Dec. 5 Seoul-bound flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport to let off the flight’s purser, whom she said had served her macadamia nuts in a sealed package instead of on a plate. Cho was seated in first class and argued that serving the nuts in their package was a violation of company service practices.

Cho was also charged with assaulting the purser. She pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The case was dubbed “nut rage” in South Korea, and sparked an angry backlash over the sometimes unruly and entitled behavior of the few families that run the conglomerates that dominate the national economy.

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http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg ... story.html

[3WE]

...I guess this is our thread that is analogous to the Conrad Hilton affair (over at JP).

Good information, those crazy Asians sure are hung up on right, wrong, honor and humility.

Sometimes it makes for too much power gradient in cockpit CRM and procedures, but for the back of the plane, it seems to work quite well.

[Not_Karl]

How dares s/he? (the purser)
Next time s/he could be serving unpeeled peanuts .
Capital punishment is not enough for him/her.

[tds]

These people are great arguments for raising estate taxes.

[Princess Leia]

This is nowhere near as sexy as I had hoped.