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[jvalmer]

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/feature/2014/12/15/66/0900000000AEN20141215008200320F.html

Jitters about the heirs born with a silver spoon in their mouth are all the stronger in a country where the top 10 business groups account for over 80 percent of the gross domestic product.

Korea really needs to encourage more start-ups and protect them from being simply being bought up by the conglomerates. Just like how they protected the conglomerates from being bought by foreign multi-nationals in the past decades.

"Founders and their children have met people from various walks of life under tough conditions to build their companies, while the grandchildren raised in the greenhouse lack the ability to communicate and sympathize with people who come from different backgrounds."

[Smithington]

China is going to give Korea a rude awakening.

[Shimokitazawa]

It gets a little more interesting in terms of the corruption at the government level and how government bureaucrats have a cozy relationship with corporate elites.

It turns out that a Transportation Ministry official went to Korean Airlines and leaked the details of the government investigation into the matter.

Then, when the Ministry investigators went to the home of the crew member to interview him, they brought along the top Korean Airlines executive and even let him sit beside the flight attendant.

So now it looks like even people in the Transport Ministry will be facing charges in addition to the Korean Air executives for trying to cover it up and intimidate the crew member.

Can Koreans fugger this up any more than it already is?

[Mix1]

[jvalmer]

[Smithington]

And the latest news from the Korean peninsula. North Korea calls the African-American president of the United States "a monkey". Honestly, this place needs to get its PR shit together - north and south. No wonder "Korea" has a terrible brand image. No good news ever comes out of here. Honestly, when was the last time it made international news for something positive? The only thing I can think of is Kim Yuna, but even she became surrounded in scandal after firing her coach 'Korea style'.

[Sector7G]

Ex-Korean Air Exec Arrested Over Nut Rage

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/korean-air-arrested-nut_n_6398346.html

South Korean prosecutors have arrested a former Korean Air Lines Co. executive for allegedly endangering flight safety by delaying a plane because her macadamia nuts were not served the way she wanted, officials said Wednesday.

Prosecutors have yet to press criminal charges against Cho, but South Korean law allows authorities to arrest a suspect for up to six months over worries the person could flee or destroy evidence. Seoul Western District Court said such concerns were warranted.

[andrewchon]

The investigator of the case has also been arrested for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The young sister (also an exec at KAL) of the disgraced exec. has tweeted to her: I will revenge for you!

She did not specify who the target of the revenge is. It is suspected:

1. The steward who didn't serve peanuts correctly to her 공주병 satisfaction.

2. ministry of transportation who didn't botch the investigation to her 공주병 satisfaction.

3. Anyone not up to her satisfaction of her 공주병 .

They know: everyone has their price and everyone eventually kneels before the power of money. $ $

Another Cho in the news. Cho EungChuen has been indicted for missing documents from the Blue House. How come nobody's asking: why does he look so much like the supposedly dead owner of Sewol ho, Yoo Byung Eun?

[Smithington]

[yodanole]

Update: neither surprising nor unexpected ....

http://nypost.com/2015/01/30/flight-attendant-lied-about-in-air-nuts-incident/

[Chaparrastique]

[Steelrails]

[Harpeau]

In light of nations that have struggles with seeing healthy change take place, what comes to mind is this book I recently finished reading called WHY NATIONS FAIL? I highly recommend it!

[andrewchon]

The disgraced exec. has been sentence to 1 year of incaceration. It isn't much. Korean gaols are not Shawshank Redemption type of places, any more. Apparently the private settlement with the flight attendant was around $200,000. No words on cancellation of the revenge-thing though. So apparently it is still in motion, dormant it maybe. $ $

[ricochet]

Ah, come on! Let her go free. In her world/ our world, she's done nothing nothing wrongly! Yeah, those peanuts are not enough to satisfy my appetite when on a plane like that too! Gully, gee whiz, you people are so savage and living in the past! All of you should be arrested or at the least warned for being human but not the fucking same as me! *beep* you! There's a difference between being innately affluent and vindictively peasant! She's been wronged!

c'mon, no guilt in you? Be the first to stone me, strike me with your complacence and transparent self-righteousness! She's the victim of you and your imperialistically cultural western philosophy. (*beep* you.)