Former Korean Air Executive Gets 1-Year Sentence in ‘Nut Rage’ Episode

SEOUL, South Korea — A former Korean Air vice president who ordered a plane back to its gate in a fit of anger over how she had been served macadamia nuts was convicted Thursday of violating aviation law and sentenced to one year in prison.

A dozen or so family-controlled conglomerates, known as chaebol, dominate the South Korean economy, and the families that run them have developed a reputation for running their companies like dictators and maintaining collusive ties with regulators. Over the decades, many of their chairmen have been convicted of crimes like bribery or tax evasion, only to return to run their conglomerates.

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