Washington : Two Korean Air heiresses will resign from management positions with the family-run conglomerate following abuse of an employee by one of them, the second incident of its kind that has produced widespread backlash.
Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho issued a statement Sunday apologizing for his daughters' behavior and said they would both be resigning, Yonhap News Agency reported.
Cho Hyun-ah, recently named president of the airline's hotel business and her younger sister, Cho Hyun-min, a Korean Air senior executive, will be stripped of all their responsibilities, according to Yonhap News Agency.
She was a Korean Air vice president at the time and was sitting in first class aboard a Korean Air flight bound for Seoul when she was given macadamia nuts in an unopened package rather than on a plate, as per the airline's rules, The Washington Post reported. Cho reportedly flew into a rage over the nuts, verbally abusing flight staff and forcing them to apologize on their knees. She then ordered the plane - already taxiing and carrying 250 passengers - to return to the gate and had the offending flight attendants ejected, according to The Washington Post.
Her younger sister, Cho Hyun-min, who also goes by Emily Cho, followed in her footsteps last month when she allegedly verbally abused and threw water at an employee of the airline's advertising agency during a business meeting, Yonhap reported. The Korea Times reported that she was "enraged" ad the employee's work performance. She denied throwing water but acknowledged shoving the employee, the BBC reported.
"I sincerely apologize for upsetting the general public and employees at Korean Air over issues related to members of my family," their father said in the statement.
Protests have grown so heated, some people even petitioned the South Korean president's office to ban the airline from using "Korean" in its name, the New York Times reported.
In Sunday's statement, the father attempted to mitigate backlash by announcing the company would establish a "compliance committee . . . prevent reoccurrence of similar incidents," Korea JoongAng Daily reported. He also promised to increase the power of the company's board of directors.
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Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho issued a statement Sunday apologizing for his daughters' behavior and said they would both be resigning, Yonhap News Agency reported.
Cho Hyun-ah, recently named president of the airline's hotel business and her younger sister, Cho Hyun-min, a Korean Air senior executive, will be stripped of all their responsibilities, according to Yonhap News Agency.
She was a Korean Air vice president at the time and was sitting in first class aboard a Korean Air flight bound for Seoul when she was given macadamia nuts in an unopened package rather than on a plate, as per the airline's rules, The Washington Post reported. Cho reportedly flew into a rage over the nuts, verbally abusing flight staff and forcing them to apologize on their knees. She then ordered the plane - already taxiing and carrying 250 passengers - to return to the gate and had the offending flight attendants ejected, according to The Washington Post.
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Her younger sister, Cho Hyun-min, who also goes by Emily Cho, followed in her footsteps last month when she allegedly verbally abused and threw water at an employee of the airline's advertising agency during a business meeting, Yonhap reported. The Korea Times reported that she was "enraged" ad the employee's work performance. She denied throwing water but acknowledged shoving the employee, the BBC reported.
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"I sincerely apologize for upsetting the general public and employees at Korean Air over issues related to members of my family," their father said in the statement.
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Protests have grown so heated, some people even petitioned the South Korean president's office to ban the airline from using "Korean" in its name, the New York Times reported.
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In Sunday's statement, the father attempted to mitigate backlash by announcing the company would establish a "compliance committee . . . prevent reoccurrence of similar incidents," Korea JoongAng Daily reported. He also promised to increase the power of the company's board of directors.
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(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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