Uplinker : yes of course but the real confusion starts 30 seconds later when she turn him back left heading 270...and then goes on with her " southbound calls" until the crew finally gets to understand what she meant/wants ..
We don't know who initially said 'left' because there was a drop-out, but EVA 015 read back "....left turn heading 180...". They got as far as about 010, (a left turn from 090), and their next transmission was a request for high speed climb, NOT to query the turn direction.
"the real confusion", as you put it, actually starts much earlier at 1:44 when ATC realises a problem and EVA 015 are told to "turn
right,
right turn
heading 180...", but which they fail to do, even after reading the correct instruction back and then being told to "expedite your
right turn....." six seconds later.
So they were told
three times to turn
right, AND the heading to turn onto, but they still failed to do so - WTF ? (And this was well before the 29....270 and subsequent instructions).