"Nut Rage" Korean Air Daughter Gets Prison Sentence

You might remember the news story a few months ago about this high-and-mighty young woman, the oldest daughter of the owner of Korean Air Lines, was on a KAL flight getting ready to take off from JFK in New York when she forced the plane to turn around because she was served some macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a dish.

Cho Hyun-ah, the oldest daughter of Korean Airlines chairman Cho Yang-ho, treated the airline staff like "feudal slaves," according to court documents, when she ordered the airline's chief flight attendant off the plane after demanding that the guy read over the airline's proper nut-handling guidelines.

It seems the incident created quite a stir in South Korea and since forcing a flight to change its route, obstructing the flight's captain, forcing crew members off a plane along with assaulting an airline crew member are all legitimate criminal offenses, she's now been sentenced by a South Korean court to serve a not-so-comfortable one-year term in the slammer.

In court, Cho wiped away tears and expressing remorse but the court showed little mercy in sentencing the heiress, much to the glee of the courtroom audience since incidents like this have usually been dismissed in South Korea where most of the economy is dominated by family-run conglomerates that historically have been able to act above the law.