--- title: Korean Air: Chairman's Daughter Orders Crew Deplaned Because of Nuts description: The daughter of a Korean Air executive ordered a flight pursuer deplaned after the crew violated the airline's nut policy. canonical: https://time.com/3623351/korean-air-daughter-nuts/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-08T16:37:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T22:14:52.000Z og:title: Korean Air: Chairman's Daughter Orders Crew Deplaned Because of Nuts og:description: The daughter of a Korean Air executive ordered a flight pursuer deplaned after the crew violated the airline's nut policy. og:url: https://time.com/3623351/korean-air-daughter-nuts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Korean Air: Chairman's Daughter Orders Crew Deplaned Because of Nuts twitter:description: The daughter of a Korean Air executive ordered a flight pursuer deplaned after the crew violated the airline's nut policy. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Airline Executive's Daughter Who Complained About Nuts Apologizes > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=9fc73c39-e0bb-44ba-9946-5b4307960067&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:14 PM UTCPublished: Dec 8, 2014 4:37 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:14 PM UTCPublished: Dec 8, 2014 4:37 PM UTC The daughter of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang Ho resigned from a management position at the airline in the face of widespread criticism over her order that a pursuer on a recent flight deplane because a crew member had violated the airline’s procedures for serving nuts. According to a Bloomberg [report](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-08/korean-air-chairman-s-daughter-deplanes-crew-over-macadamia-nuts.html?hootPostID=946c29ed93884f7e603407ce095e3bfb), a flight attendant served Heather Cho, the chairman’s daughter, macadamia nuts in a package and without asking her. The airline’s policy calls for nuts to be served on a plate with the customer’s permission, a rule that the flight’s pursuer didn’t know when asked by Cho. “I am sorry for causing trouble to the passengers and the people,” Cho said in a [statement](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/asia/korean-air-executive-resigns-post-after-halting-flight-over-snack-service.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc%5Fid&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&%5Fr=1), according to the New York _Times_. “I seek forgiveness from those who were hurt by what I did.” A South Korean transportation regulator said that it is investigating an incident to see if any laws were violated. The airline says that it took the plane less than two minutes to return to the gate, Bloomberg reports. Heather Cho, the chairman’s daughter, was traveling from New York to Seoul last Friday. While she quit one leadership role, she remains a vice president at the airline. \[[_Bloomberg_](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-08/korean-air-chairman-s-daughter-deplanes-crew-over-macadamia-nuts.html?hootPostID=946c29ed93884f7e603407ce095e3bfb)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3623351/korean-air-daughter-nuts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3623351/korean-air-daughter-nuts/"},"headline":"Airline Executive's Daughter Who Complained About Nuts Apologizes","datePublished":"2014-12-08T16:37:32.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T22:14:52.000Z","description":"A flight attendant served macadamia nuts without asking","url":"https://time.com/3623351/korean-air-daughter-nuts/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Airlines","Bizarre","Business topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3623351/korean-air-daughter-nuts/","name":"Airline Executive's Daughter Who Complained About Nuts Apologizes"}}]}] ```