Eunha, a flight attendant in her thirties, works at Alpha Air, Korea’s No. 1 airline. Here she is known for her warm personality, strong social skills, and striking beauty. She also serves as a union delegate. However, after being assigned by management to assist the General Affairs team, she gradually becomes isolated from her colleagues. Unintentionally, she takes part in justifying the disciplinary action of a fellow crew member and even witnesses a senior union member’s suicide. Under the weight of excessive workload, workplace bullying, and escalating conflicts, Eunha eventually takes her own life during a flight. Thirty-year-old Suyeon, too, dreams of becoming an Alpha air attendant. She joins the very team Eunha once belonged to. The team, shaken and tense after Eunha’s death, is in a constant state of shifting relationships. Suyeon resembles Eunha in certain ways, which leads her colleagues to treat her unfairly. At first, she tries to endure the hostility, but soon realizes she needs support and decides to join the union. This angers her colleague Jin-hyuk—Eunha’s ex-boyfriend—and shortly thereafter, the union faces a raid due to allegations of embezzlement and breach of trust among its executives. Despairing that no one can help her, Suyeon boards a flight to Los Angeles with her team. Tension builds in the cabin. When the plane encounters sudden turbulence, chaos erupts—followed by a series of uncanny deaths…

The coexistence of fiery narrative and cold reflection, an office thriller that directly confronts “workplace bullying.” Turbulence is a socially conscious full-length novel that chillingly and realistically exposes how the oppressed torment one another within structures of power, through the workplace bullying that unfolds in the unique setting of an airline crew organization in the post-COVID era.