Former Korean Air cabin service manager Park Chang-jin, who exposed the so-called “nut rage” incident, has been appointed as the head of planning (executive director) at KAC Airport Service, a subsidiary of Korea Airports Corporation (KAC).
According to KAC Airport Service on the 9th, newly appointed head Park held an inauguration ceremony at the company’s main conference room on the 7th, attended by employees and union representatives.
In his inauguration speech, Park said, “I most resonate with our company’s management policy centered on the field,” and added, “Based on the solidarity and comfort I received from the field in the past, I will be a head of planning who stands with the field and employees.”
Park stated, “The airport is like a hometown I have returned to,” and added, “I will practice leadership centered on the field, communication, connection, and mutual growth, and be a head of planning who values the worth of the field’s labor.”
Park joined Korean Air in 1996 as a cabin crew member, worked as an in-house promotional model and VIP-duty flight attendant, and was promoted to cabin service manager in 2005. However, after exposing the so-called “nut rage” incident in 2014, he clashed with management and resigned in January 2020.
The “nut rage” incident occurred on December 5, 2014, when former Vice Chairman Cho Hyun-ah, a member of Korean Air’s owner family, caused a disturbance by criticizing the peanut service on a plane preparing for takeoff, and then...
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