J.O.
It would seem that curries tend to agree with me. I'm very much enjoying my experience on the sub-continent and am finding my hosts to be exceptionally friendly and welcoming.
Maui
Greetings to you as well. Yes, I can imagine that for some KE is like heaven compared to wherever they worked previously, but equally for others it may be hell. The truth is it's neither but there are significant challenges attendant to the job whichever your viewpoint.
I would agree that the word "torture" is somewhat inflammatory and is damaging to the reputations of the many good and earnest Koreans at KE. But that such words accurately reflect the opinions of some who worked there (and the individual in question was actually well thought of by most locals and not an axe grinder) is in good part a reflection of the fact that there are those at KE who are neither good nor moral, who have unambiguous agendas to diminish the terms of employment and get rid of foreign pilots, and who are quite willing to carry out acts of personal vindictivness which they are not called to answer for. These malign characters damage honest individuals and reputations and poison the environment to the detriment of all at KE, and they do so without the slightest concern for the truth or any shred of personal integrity. We only need to look back to the attack on the ACP's in the thread you cited to remind ourselves of what it can be like.
Unfortunately, when such invidious individuals do what they do, the good and earnest Koreans who you and I have respect for are generally nowhere to be seen on the battlefield. Though they are good guys, they are, in my opinion, unwilling to defend a truth if doing so involves putting themselves in conflict with the machinations of those less honourable. Until they are willing to do so they will have to bear the weight of words like "torture" that the less worthy in their group bequeath to them.
I have in the past been a defender of the many good guys, just as you have, but until those good guys are prepared to stand up and say that they will not accept such behaviour from either local or expat, they will not be fully deserving of the defense you are providing them.
As I know you will appreciate it, I offer a final thought from the bible which I think is relevant:
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Best wishes,
ELAC