article_snippet: Heather Cho, a Korean Air executive and daughter of the airline's chairman, is serving a one-year prison sentence in South Korea after throwing a fit on a New York flight because Heather Cho nuts were served in a bag instead of a porcelain bowl.
article_snippet: In a civil suit filed this week in state Supreme Court in Queens, New York, Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- is accused of "verbally and physically" attacking flight attendant Kim Do-hee in December on a Seoul-bound flight departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport.
article_snippet: At the time, Cho, who was seated in first class, demanded that the plane go back to the gate so Kim could be kicked off a New York flight, according to the lawsuit.
article_snippet: a civil suit filed this week in state Supreme Court in Queens, New York describes Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- as the "princess" of the "so-called royal" family that controls Korean Air, and says the executive screamed obscenities at Kim before hitting, shoving and threatening the flight attendant.
article_snippet: A South Korean judge last month said that Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents --'s actions threatened the development of the aviation industry and inconvenienced passengers, and ruled that A South Korean judge violated aviation law, changed a flight path and interfered with operations.
article_snippet: A South Korean judge was sentenced to a year in jail.
article_snippet: A South Korean judge blasted Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- for A South Korean judge conduct, saying that A South Korean judge had used the plane as if the plane were A South Korean judge personal car and that as a passenger, A South Korean judge could not override crew members and give orders during a flight.
article_snippet: Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- resigned as vice president at the plane a few days after the incident and publicly apologized, saying Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- accepted "full responsibility.
article_snippet: Park Chang-jin, the chief steward who was booted from the flight instead of Kim, has said the former executive treated crew members like "feudal slaves.
article_snippet: Park and Kim, the flight attendant who served the nuts, had knelt in front of Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- in apology.
article_snippet: Kim testified that Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- berated crew members about the service and later shoved and cursed Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents --.
article_snippet: When the flight arrived in Korea, the flight attendant said another airline manager, Yeo Woon-jin, pressured Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- not to talk to investigators about Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents --'s physically abusing Cho -- whose name is listed as Heather Hyun A-Cho in court documents -- and Park.
article_snippet: Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho apologized to the flight attendants and the public following the public uproar over the incident.
highlights_snippet: Heather Cho is accused of "verbally and physically" attacking flight attendant Do Hee Kim .
  