During my time in KAL years ago there were quite a number of expats who did bent metal! I may get some flak about this, some did get away without the summary sackings but their contracts were generally not renewed after their fourth year. At one stage, the expat pilots almost became a new problem rather than the solution to KAL's woes with quite a number of incidents. So let's not be so smug! The sad thing is a lot of newbies just shoot off their mouths without understanding or researching the history of expats in KAL.
As for rk, he was always dying to be management or instructor pilot no matter how ****ty the position. To throw in the towel with a runner suggests that the writing must be really painted bright red on the wall. I heard nh also resigned last year when things turned ugly and KAL has now brought in an outsider for nh's post.