Court sentences Korean Air nut rage exec to 1 year in prison

This is unheard of! A rich person actually going to prison????? Does this mean that there is actually JUSTICE in this world???

I wonder if they serve nuts in prison?

It's good that the Korean authorities are cutting this woman no slack. Born into wealth and privilege, fawned over by sycophants and toadies from a young age, arrogant in her conviction that her entitlement was entirely deserved and that others had no choice than to endure her capricious whims, she was an accident simply waiting to happen. If this incident serves to remind others like her that with great power comes great responsibility, and a concomitant need for noblesse oblige, it will have been a valuable lesson.

I wonder if they serve nuts in prison?

They will be serving her and I think she qualifies.

I think they do but only in packaging and not bowls.

Real prison? Or one of those penitentiary "spa" for rich prisoners?

She sounds genuinely remorseful. Maybe something good will come out of this....

Most people would be once it becomes clear she will be sent to prison, that the Koreans have to make an example of someone.

Anyway, praise must be given to the Korean courts.

I'm sure they offer things like macadamia nuts and soft bog roll in first class cells.

At least the korean courts did something.

Big business criminals here escape the judicial system all too often (cough) ineptco (cough).

Seems reasonable.

It was a 'crime' committed in USA, how does Korean court have jurisdiction?

I hope Paris Hilton's brother is taking notes.

Fair enough... that will get her down to earth. I hope she really does got to prison and does not get this converted to some sort of comfortable house arrest.

She must have had a crappy lawyer

She must have had a crappy lawyer

??? She was facing 10-15 years at maximum, She got 1. Seems pretty good, as it would have been hard to argue that she didn't interrupt the flight & etc...

Sometimes you feel like a nut!

Dan Lewis had the best comment of all.

People who abuse others can be found in all socioeconomic groups and races. They have a insatiable ego and believe that forcible behavior is acceptable with little regard for people' feelings. These individuals have gone through life getting what they want having been spoiled. It is a system which is effective for them because it bestows feelings of power and control. Abusers need psychological aid.

Good Bad Dan LewisFEB. 12, 2015 - 07:42PM JST I wonder if they serve nuts in prison?

Obviously they must else this woman would starve. If they serve macadamia nuts I hope they serve them on a plate, not in a bag or she might fly into a rage.

No one is denying that the woman has some done terrible things, but justice has gone too far this time. Watching her being humilated in public with cameras rolling even before the trial started was like watching someone being tortured. It was simply gross. And to top it all, the court is giving the woman one year in prison. South Korea certainly isn't earning any browie points from most other countries.

"sentenced a former Korean Air executive to a year in prison for aviation law violations that stemmed from her inflight tantrum over how she was served macadamia nuts." - article

Prison doesn't teach manners, maybe they could have sentenced her to a Swiss finishing school and reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

Heavy weighs the head that wears the gown, poor Princess, so many awful poor people in first class to have to put up with, and the NUTS! My God! The Nuts!

A private jet could have saved everyone so much bother, especially Princess Oh So Humble Now. A month at the Hilton will teach her the meaning of deprivation. The spa closes at 10p, the horror, the horror.

1 year? Why are they going nuts over this?

I'm glad she's not being let off the hook for what she's done, and while I wonder if she'll be TRULY remorseful (beyond feeling sorry for her present circumstances) it's good that at least she is apologizing. I don't feel sorry for her one bit, although I think the sentence is the wrath of the nation at people like her and her family, and not necessarily just. I hope she uses that time to honestly push to better herself.

Cho Hyun-ah's first words as she enters prison:

This isn't the nuthouse!