My girlfriend is Korean-American. She’s talked about “shame” being a huge part of the culture.”Saving face” is important to Koreans. Also,there’s been huge political turmoil in Korea in recent weeks.
There’s been at least one alleged suicide of a former official who was in charge when that antenna setup was installed.
The go around is what is still got me scratching my head.
And why ATC didn’t alert the crew to the issues with the antenna set up.