A-V,
ahn yo ah seyo!
Kam samnida for your support.
You got straight to the point, the core of their intracockpit attitude is based on exactly this set of behavioral and cultural aspects: vanity, pride, hierarchy, seniority and blind obediency request.
This has nothing to do with a safe present cockpit crew work requeriments. This explains their civil aviation safety records being the worst of the world. It takes more than fancy new aircraft and airports to have a safe air transport industry. Have to kind of break out of some of this confucionism...
It seems that they are increasingly getting in trouble: in the last couple of years, as there were a badly requeriment of experienced expats, a foreign captain was very welcome, but as the time passed and they got union and build some experience their attitude is becoming more and more hostile. This because Korean pilots think now they are in condition to take the duties and get rid off expats. But this hardly can be true as, for instance, their absolutely mistaken evaluation system demonstrates. All checkpilots over there are Koreans and there is not a reasonable criteria for checkrides. They failed several very experienced and qualified captains for nothing, while passed some others whose performance is below average, either in their countries and during training in Korea.
Bear in mind that before joining this outfit all of them passed a 3 day screening tests and at least that 2,3 months "training" I mentioned before. They took their families to Seoul, in the belief they were joining a serious professional commitment and, at the end of all this were irresponsabily "failed" and subsequently fired by a Korean checkpilot with less than half the average expat PIC flight time.
Just imagine the personal life disruption this guys suffered! We are talking about professionals with more than 10,000 hr command time, with mostly impeccable records.
As for Korean girls, yes, there are a lot of very gorgeous cabin crew over there, smart and nice. Korean people in general are gently, cooperative and welcoming.
Too bad their air transport industry is mismanaged like this.