Korean Air 'nut rage' heiress convicted of assaulting husband
Cho Hyun-ah / Yonhap
By Park Si-soo
Former Korean Air vice president and “nut rage” heiress Cho Hyun-ah was fined 30 million won ($2,460) for assaulting her husband but cleared of abusing her twin children by throwing a spoon at them and verbally abusing them.
Judge In Jin-sup made the ruling recently, the Seoul Central District Court said on Thursday.
While it's not yet known if Cho will appeal, her husband, surnamed Kim, has appealed, arguing the court's decision on the child abuse was wrong.
Cho was charged in February with assault of her husband and child abuse. She reportedly yelled at him and choked him while arguing over family issues. At one point, she hurled a tablet PC at him that injured his big toe.
The couple married in 2010 but the husband filed for divorce in April 2018, which is pending at the Seoul Family Court.
Cho made international headlines in 2014 through what's called the
incident on a Korean Air plane at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.