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SEOUL – Cho Hyun-ah, a former vice president of Korean Air known for a “zero rage” incident in 2014, has been allowed to divorce her husband, who filed a divorce lawsuit alleging family violence four years and seven months ago and verbal abuse. Cho, 48, was due to pay 1.33 billion won (US$994,233) towards the property division but retained her legal status as custodian of her children.
In its November 17 ruling, a family court in Seoul accepted a lawsuit filed by Cho and her husband for divorce. Cho was sentenced to pay 1.2 million won a month in child support per child. It was not immediately known whether Cho or her husband had appealed.
Cho, 48, married her elementary school classmate, identified by his family name Park, in October 2010 and has twin children. The husband, who runs an orthopedic clinic in south Seoul, filed for divorce in April 2018 to end their married life, which was allegedly riddled with violence, violent language and child abuse.
Ten months later, Park filed a separate complaint alleging assault and child abuse. Prosecutors dropped the child molestation charges, but a district court upheld the assault charges and issued a summary order of 3.0 million won in fines. Cho filed a countersuit in June 2019, seeking divorce and alimony, dismissing allegations of child molestation as baseless, and accusing Park of alcoholism.
The first daughter of the late Hanjin Group chairman Cho Yang-ho resigned as vice president of Korean Air after throwing a tantrum on board an airplane in December 2014. She got angry when a flight attendant served her some nuts in a bag on board a plane and was pushed back to the gate while taxiing to the runway. She was sentenced to prison for violating airline safety laws, but an appeals court stayed her sentence in May 2015.
In 2019, Hanjin was hit hard by a series of scandals after the late chairman’s second daughter, Cho Hyun-min, threw a glass cup and sprayed plum juice during a business meeting with representatives from an advertising agency. The incident fueled public anger and led to multiple investigations into the late CEO, his wife and children for establishing a black fund, tax evasion, illegally importing foreign luxury goods, and abusing and assaulting company employees and others.
At a shareholders’ meeting in 2020, Hanjin Group chairman Cho Won-tae won a comfortable victory over a rival alliance led by his older sister for control of keeping the scandal-ridden conglomerate a year ago. Cho Hyun-ah had criticized her brother for running the group without consulting family members first, but her arguments failed to convince the majority of neutral shareholders.
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