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:
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.
LOL When you say it out loud it sounds like “mean Jew” party…
What? Too early?
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
@Guitard, all good points and all the more reason why the slogan should not have been selected. How can a country claim to be creative when they are copying a widely used slogan?