Cho Hyun-ah, Korean Air’s Vice President for inflight services and daughter of the airline’s Chairman, flew New York JFK – Seoul four years ago and had an altercation with a crew member. She was flying first class, and a flight attendant presented her with an unopened bag of macadamia nuts, rather than serving them on a plate.
Ms. Cho scolded the flight attendant, and dressed down the purser. She apparently hit the flight attendant. She ordered the purser off the plane. The aircraft, then 56 feet toward the runway at this point, returned to the gate to offload the purser. The incident delayed departure by 20 minutes. And the world went ‘nuts’.
Now the daughter of Korean Air’s recently-deposed Chairman (who has since passed away in Los Angeles) is accused of fraudulently obtaining visas for Philippines house staff by claiming they were airline trainees. Her mother is charged in the scheme as well.
Prosecutors charged Lee and Cho Hyun-ah in December, saying they unlawfully recruited and hired 11 housekeepers from the Philippines by documenting them as Korean Air trainees from 2013 to early last year.
The nut rage executive has admitted her involvement and is facing a $12,900 fine. Her mother claims to have been unaware of the scheme.
Those Korean Oligarchs don’t know anything other than criminality. Visa fraud is a felony. And immigration judges love to throw the book at human traffickers. She won’t get off as easily as she would in Korea.
She is being charged in Korea.
@james, c’min did you read the article – she’s in Korean court. They are seeking a whopping $15k fine. I bet she’s petrified. And yes if this was the US she’d have lost her passport and had to escape the US on a private jet (I’d be shocked if she didn’t).
It’s one thing to bring in people to do a specific job for your business or household. It’s another to welcome in hoards of people bring high levels of crime, violence and poverty who wreck countries and destabilize a labor market and social programs. It seems ridiculous that this woman will receive focus for the former when millions and millions of illegals flood a country and violate the sovereignty of citizens and many don’t bat an eye.
John, bringing in Philippine Housekeepers is not a hoard of people that bring crime. They are hard working people and are quite common in domestic jobs in Asia. I can’t see a hoard of Korean’s jumping at low paying housekeeper jobs. Your comment is very inappropriate and uneducated. She did wrong….
She is actually a us citizen
If this involves Chaebol then nothing will come of it.
They absolutely own and run South Korea, and you cannot spend a single ‘ship-won’ without them getting a cut.
Greed can’t even begin to describe Chaebol family members.