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The -president of Korean Air has quit over an embarrassing involving a bag of nuts. Cho Hyun-ah, daughter of the president, was on a from New York to South Korea on December 5. She was sitting in the first class when a flight attendant served her a snack of a bag of macadamia nuts. Ms Cho, 40, was that the nuts were not given to her on a . She shouted at the flight attendant and told him the training said the nuts should be served on a plate. Cho forced the man to kneel down and apologise. She ordered him to leave the airplane, which had to return to the gate to let him off. The flight was delayed for 20 minutes because of Cho's .

The incident is big in Korea, where journalists are calling it "nut rage". Aviation in Korea could take legal action against Cho. They said her actions could have put the 250 on the flight in danger. Officials may also question the for turning the aircraft round without a good . Cho's father asked the Korean public to forgive the "foolish" actions of his daughter. He told reporters: "I am making my both as head of Korean Air and as a father. I beg the people to blame me for the situation, because everything is my ….I failed to educate my daughter." He has also removed his daughter from all the she held in his companies.

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