Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-min faces the press as she arrives at the Seoul Gangseo Police Station in the morning on May 1 for questioning over allegations she splashed water in the face of an advertising agency official. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk
Police investigators come out of the Korean Air headquarters in Seoul on April 19, 2018, after searching and seizing evidence there in relation to the case of the airline’s executive Cho Hyun-min, who allegedly threw water in an ad company official’s face. (Yonhap)
Cho Hyun-min admits to doing more more than throw water at an advertising agent, she even shoved the person:
Korean Air Lines Co., said Monday that it has temporarily suspended one of its executives — the daughter of the company’s chairman — for her alleged misbehavior toward an advertising agency employee.
South Korea’s national flagship carrier Senior Vice President Cho Hyun-min has been relieved from her current post until the ongoing police probe into the matter is concluded. It did not elaborate on what further action will be taken.
On Friday, law enforcement authorities launched a preliminary inquiry into Cho after local media reported that she yelled and threw water at a manager of an advertising agency during a meeting in Seoul last month.
She is the younger sister of Cho Hyun-ah, who was jailed in 2014 in the so-called nut rage scandal. Cho Hyun-ah ordered a plane full of passengers back to the boarding gate in New York because she was upset about the way her nuts were served.
The younger Cho was reportedly upset because the advertising employee did not properly answer her questions.
“I was foolish. I am sorry,” the heiress told reporters after arriving at Incheon International Airport on Sunday. Cho denied, however, that she threw water, although she admitted giving the person a shove. [Yonhap]
Cho Hyun-min, 35, the sister of Cho Hyun-ah (Heather Cho), the Korean Air heiress who made headlines around the world for the 2014 “nut rage” incident, has been caught up in her own rage controversy.
She has been accused of throwing a cup of water into the face of an employee from an advertising agency at a recent meeting.
According to local media outlets Thursday, Cho, a Korean Air executive, was dissatisfied with the agent’s performance for its new advertisement, so she “yelled and threw a cup of water at the employee.”
Korean Air denied the accusation. “It is true that she yelled and threw a cup to the floor,” a Korean Air official told The Korea Times. “But she did not throw the cup at the employee. After a while, she apologized to the person and others who attended the meeting.”
If the accusation is true, she could be prosecuted for assault. [Korea Times]
You can read more at the link, but throwing a cup on the ground is nothing; I once saw a senior military leader throw a chair across the room that hit a wall to make a point of how displeased he was.
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