Police investigate second angry daughter of Korean Air Lines chairman

SEOUL: South Korean police have launched an inquiry into reports a daughter of the chairman of Korean Air Lines threw a water bottle at someone’s face, the second daughter of the airline chief to get into trouble over an angry outburst.

Cho Hyun-min, a senior vice president at the airline, apologised on Thursday for her ‘foolish behaviour’, following media reports that she threw a water bottle at the face of a manager at the airline’s advertising agency.

In her apology on her Facebook page, Cho did not give details of the incident and an airline spokesman said she had thrown a water bottle on the floor, not at anyone’s face.

Cho’s older sister, Heather Cho, made headlines over a notorious ‘nut rage’ incident in 2014, when she lost her temper over the way she was served nuts in first class and ordered the Korean Air Lines plane she was on to return to its gate at a New York airport.

Police had launched a preliminary investigation to see whether Cho Hyun-min had abused her power or broken any law in connection with the latest reports, an official at Seoul Gangseo Police Station told Reuters on Friday.

The official gave no details of the inquiry.

Such inquiries are carried out to determine if a formal investigation of an incident is warranted. A Korean Air Lines spokesman said the company had yet to be informed of any preliminary investigation.

The airline’s chairman, Cho Yang-ho, has not commented on the incident involving his younger daughter, who has left the country on a vacation, the company said.