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Korean Air confirms making mistake on Bobby Kim’s ticket

January 12, 2015
(Yonhap)

(Yonhap)

Korean Air confirmed Monday it gave another person’s ticket to R&B singer Bobby Kim — who was taken into questioning by the FBI for throwing a tantrum on a flight to San Francisco last Wednesday — by accident, Yonhap reported.

According to the airline, Kim, 41,  was handed an economy ticket by a counter clerk belonging to a “KIM ROBERT” instead of his given name, “KIM ROBERT DO KYUN,” for which a business-class ticket had been reserved.

Korean Air later found out the ticket had been given to the wrong Robert Kim but did not attempt to correct the mistake and boarded the two men on the flight under the economy ticket.

Oscar Entertainment, Kim’s agency, told OSEN Monday they are considering requesting compensation but that the singer’s priority right now is to return to Korea to apologize for his mistakes.

Korean Air said they would provide compensation for their mistake if Kim should request it per their usual procedure.

“But for this case, the investigation on Bobby Kim has not yet ended. We cannot discuss compensation at this point,” a Korean Air source told OSEN.

An unnamed 37-year-old businessman who sat in front of Kim on the flight told Korean media last Friday he had no idea the man behind him was the singer.

He said there had been another passenger who had had a problem with her seating that day but that she had been moved to a business seat from economy. When Kim saw her being moved, he requested the same again but was denied, the source said.

The source said the singer ordered a few glasses of house wine and that, even when he was clearly drunk, flight attendants kept providing him more.

Kim yelled from his seat and cursed in English while drunk. He was moved to a jump seat after at least four complaints from other passengers, the source said. He said the singer asked a female flight attendant how long she was staying in San Francisco, her number and whether she had a boyfriend.

The airline’s initial report filed about the incident, released Sunday by Korean media, said Kim had boarded Flight No. KE023 Wednesday from Incheon International Airport. Four to five hours into the flight, he drunkenly yelled for two hours and was moved into a jump seat by flight attendants, the report reads.

A female flight attendant told her superior the singer harassed her verbally and with physical contact three times, according to the report.

There is no specific mention of Kim putting his arms around her waist, as previously stated by Korean Air last Friday.

In that statement, the airline said the singer had asked the attendant for her number and where she was staying in San Francisco. He had been on his way to visit family in the city for vacation.