South Korean Government Accused of Plagiarizing New National Slogan

What an embarrassment for the Park administration if they did in fact plagiarize the new national slogan.  Even if they did not plagiarize it they still should have been aware that a major country like France was already using the slogan:

Rep. Sohn Hye-won says during the Minjoo Party’s interim leadership meeting on Wednesday that the government’s “Creative Korea” slogan and its logo design plagiarized the “Creative France” campaign of Business France. [NEWSIS]
The Park Geun-hye administration’s newly created national slogan celebrating Korean creativity was plagiarized from a French campaign, an opposition lawmaker and renowned designer said Wednesday.

Rep. Sohn Hye-won of the Minjoo Party of Korea said during the interim leadership meeting in the morning that the government’s “Creative Korea” slogan and its logo design plagiarized the “Creative France” campaign of Business France, a French national agency promoting international investment in the country.

“Using the word ‘creative’ in front of the name of the country in the slogan, and using the red and blue colors in the logo design, are blatant acts of plagiarism,” Sohn said. “It is especially embarrassing that the plagiarized slogan is celebrating creativity.”  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

You can read more at the link, but it is pretty ironic that a slogan pushing creativity was possibly plagiarized.

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setnaffa
setnaffa
8 years ago

LOL When you say it out loud it sounds like “mean Jew” party…

What? Too early?

guitard
guitard
8 years ago

Plagiarism is an act of fraud that involves both stealing someone else’s work and LYING about it afterward.

So how common is the two word expression starting with the word “creative” followed by a country name? Results of a quick Google search:

http://madeincreativeuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cropped-MICUK-Banner-TOP.png

http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9783866540521-us-300.jpg

http://www.creative-japan.net/images/logo.gif

http://movingcities.org/wordpress/wp-content/photos/arch_public/081129-pek-UC33-uc-logo.jpg

http://www.soclab.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/creative_poland-150×150.png

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