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Korean Air heiress who threw tantrum over nuts served in bag, not bowl, returns as prez
A Korean Air heiress known for her “nut rage” tantrum that sparked national uproar four years ago made a comeback to management on Thursday, a spokesperson said.
At a shareholders meeting, Korean Air subsidiary KAL Hotel Network approved Cho Hyun-ah, 44, as its president, the spokesperson said.
Cho, a daughter of Korean Air chief Cho Yang-ho and then the company’s vice-president, erupted into a tantrum when a stewardess served her macadamia nuts in a bag rather than in a bowl on a Seoul-bound flight at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport.
She and the male cabin crew chief were forced to kneel and beg for forgiveness, before Cho struck the woman with a service manual and ordered the aircraft to turn back to the gate so the man could be thrown off the plane.
The incident was one of the most infamous cases involving offspring of a controlling family of one of the country’s large businesses