Originally Posted by own nav

In recent years we have had more Koreans mentoring each other. They have friends who are ahead of them in the program, and can tell them what to expect. This has a huge impact.

I'm a firm believer in GIGO. If you treat them like a passenger, then that's what you will get for a year. If you take the time to mentor them, and run things like a real 2 crew environment, you might be surprised what you get.

Occasionally, I get an FO who is either very timid or unmotivated, in which case they may sit on their hands for the rest of the flight, but in most cases I find that they can at least be trained to do an ILS down to their minimum of a mile vis, and communicate with ATC in routine dialogue. In a few cases, I would recommend them to be an AMF captain, but I'd doubt they would take it over a Korean Air 737.