Korean Air staff in protest against ‘nut rage’ family

Hundreds of Korean Air workers wearing masks protested in the centre of Seoul late Friday, demanding the ouster of the airline’s chairman, Cho Yang-ho, over the behaviour of two of his daughters who held senior posts at the company. One of the sisters, Cho Hyun-ah, became notorious for a “nut rage” incident on one of the airline’s planes that saw her briefly jailed. The other, Cho Hyun-min, ignited fresh outrage last month, when she was accused of throwing a drink over an advertising executive at a business meeting. In a country where workers are often expected to show unquestioning loyalty, their cases have become a focus of public impatience with the family-run conglomerates known as chaebol that dominate South Korea’s economy, and over what some people see as unchecked bad behaviour by the rich and powerful. <br/>