It is precisely because of Clown's comments that I write.
For Jailed, you have the right to do whatever you want with your own airline, and if you feel it necessary to take industrial action, that must be your decision. I base my comment about the strike being illegal on what I read in the local papers, and from conversations with friends who work for KAL. I did not see any statement from the union refuting the claim that their participation was illegal. Thus those who did take part knowingly risked jail or whatever punishment would be imposed. Of course it should not have reached that point and industrial action should not result in jail, but you are dealing with a government that does not have much sympathy for unionists.
The Korean pilots do, according to what I have been told, and from what I have seen, resent the employment of foreign pilots, and have been doing their best to have them dissmissed. The strike was settled, according to the media, after the company agreed to reduce the number of foreign pilots by around 30%. There was no pay rise, even though one had been offered. Does this not speak for itself?
I am not asking for pilot support for the foreign pilots employed by KAL (they would not want it, if my colleagues working there can be believed), but when you go out to support the KAL pilots, don't forget that there are two groups involved, one of which has no voice.
I am not a management pilot, nor do I have any affiliation with KAL, but I can see much merit in what the company is trying to do, and, frankly, not much at all in what the pilots are doing.