South Korea's highest court upheld the suspended prison sentence handed down to the spoiled rich kid and former Korean Air executive vice president whose tantrum over a bag of nuts revealed and embarrassed the country's deeply entrenched "chaebol" dynasties.

Cho Hyun-ah is the daughter of Korean Air's chairman, and was the executive in charge of cabin service.  In 2014, she threw a fit on one of the company's flights in New York because the steward served her nuts in a bag and not in a serving dish.  Ms. Cho slapped the steward, forced him to kneel and apologize, and ordered the plane to return from the runway to the terminal at JFK International so that he could be put off the flight. 

Cho Hyun-ah

Prosecutors in South Korea charged her with offenses including violating aviation security and business practices laws, and she sat in jail for five months.  But the judge threw out the most serious charges that could have gotten her a decade-long stretch in the slammer, and sentenced her to a year in prison.  A higher court reduced that to ten months in prison suspended for two years, providing she doesn't behead a maid for rearranging the wine glasses or get caught throwing a macca's clerk off the roof onto a spiked fence for under-cooking her fries.  That sentence has been upheld.

Former airline steward Park Chang-jin was later silently demoted for speaking out against Ms. Cho, proving that the company has learned absolutely nothing.  He recently announced plans to sue Korean Air. Find out best Business management systems for small business and medium business.

Park Chang-jin

The spectacle of an entitled brat throwing one of the world's busiest airports into a tizzy because of a bag of nuts sparked international headlines, and shined a harsh light on South Korea's "chaebol" business dynasties which ensure that wealth, power, and ownership stay within families and are protected from such things as regulation, merit, and hard work. 

Earlier this year, the head of South Korea's biggest chaebol, now-former Samsung boss Jay Y. Lee, was convicted of bribery and sentenced to five years in prison in a scandal that brought down former president Park Geun-hye - herself, the daughter of the country's ex-dictator.