National Post (National Edition)

I WANT TO FIGHT EVEN THOUGH I AM JUST A LITTLE GUY.

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through the cabin in case passengers had severe allergies.

She unleashed a torrent of abuse at the attendant, Kim Dohee, and insisted that Park kick her off the plane, which was still on the ground in New York, according to court documents.

Park said he explained that the door was shut and they were starting to taxi, but Cho wasn’t having it.

She made Kim and Park apologize on their knees in front of her, then ordered the plane back to the gate and had them both ejected.

The incident ignited a storm in South Korea.

Cho’s father, Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho, called his daughter “foolish” and fired her. But it didn’t end there. She was charged with obstructin­g aviation safety and sentenced to a fire- said his working conditions also deteriorat­ed sharply, with his superiors belittling him and asking him why he had returned to work or why he wasn’t married.

It took a toll on Park, who is 47 and has worked for Korean Air for 21 years.

He began to find it difficult to put on his happy cabin-attendant face in such an environmen­t.

“I have suffered physically and psychologi­cally,” he said, describing how he had to take a total of 18 months’ sick leave while he sought hospital treatment.

He is now taking anti-depressant­s and often experience­s agoraphobi­a and difficulty breathing.

He wiped his eyes several times during the interview.

But he wanted to return to work.Parkgrewup­onasmallis­land off the coast of South Korea,

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