Report Says that University Has Found Korean First Lady Plagarized Her Master’s Thesis
It is amazing how many of Korea’s elites have been involved with plagiarism to attain their degrees:
South Korean first lady Kim Keon Hee’s master’s thesis submitted to Sookmyung Women’s University looks set to be deemed plagiarized, according to local reports Tuesday.
In 1999, Kim earned a master’s degree in art education from the Graduate School of Education at Sookmyung. Plagiarism allegations first surfaced decades later, in December 2021, as scrutiny of her credentials intensified after her husband, Yoon Suk Yeol, emerged as a strong presidential candidate at the time.
Following an accusation filed by an alumnae group calling themselves the “Democratic Alumnae Association,” Sookmyung’s research ethics committee officially launched a preliminary investigation into the case in February 2022. After 10 months, in December 2022, a full-fledged probe began.
The process was criticized for taking an unusually long time, far exceeding the 60-day period designated for a preliminary review and the 30 days within which a decision to launch a full investigation should have been made.
Finally this January, the university concluded that Kim in fact committed plagiarism.
You can read more at the link, but Kim Keon-hee may lost her Master’s degree and possibly even her Phd due to this plagiarism finding.
Lavrentiy Beria: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
Political infighting is morphing South Korea toward a post-Stalin-era USSR.
That must stop if freedom is to be maintained. There is a tipping point beyond which self-correction is not possible. But it’s up to South Korean voters to decide their own fate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria
DOGE’s ability to rapidly untangle amazingly (and intentionally) complex networks of financial and organizational relationships is due to the incredible pattern recognition skills of “AI”.
With a database of sources, direct plagiarism can be detected algorithmically. An “AI” can easily detect larger patterns from paraphrasing or structure. Then it can give a plagiarism coefficient.
It would be very interesting to see how they evaluated this.
There is a right way to do it and then there is a way that confirms the results you wanted.
In other words for @GIKorea, @setnaffa, and the Setnaffarians, it is OK for the right wingers to be corrupt and commit crimes, but it is not OK for the left to be corrupt and commit crimes.
Ah yes the hypocrisy of the right wingers is never surprising.
Nobody said it’s OK to commit crimes.
The issue is trust.
It isn’t above the anti-Koreans to lie and say there is plagiarism where there is none.
If they can demonstrate plagiarism, then nobody is against the concequences for her.
But they need to show it, not say it.
But the voters are stupid. As for any ‘tipping point’, self correction remains possible. It just likely won’t be determined by voting.
I cannot imagine any reason anyone would run for president in the ROK. Seems even worse on the family than US politics. Maybe if you don’t have a family. Or really hate your family.
If being president comes with a lengthy prison sentence as soon as political power is lost, there is a massive incentive to not leave power, and the type of person willing to risk prison is the type to risk much more.
My sister in law has a masters in art history. Her thesis was on some French tapestry. I remember wondering at the time how many people with masters in art history did a thesis on the same work. Also what the value of this work would represent after (x) number of thesis are written on the same subject. And wouldn’t those thesises (or whatever the plural of thesis is) be redundant, en masse? How does one screen for plagiarism on something like that? I’m sure they have their ways. Especially if politically motivated or financially incentivized enough.
@Korean Man I have never said anything in support of Kim Keon-hee not getting in trouble for plagiarism. If she did in fact commit plagiarsim which it appears she did then she should lose her degree. With that said with all the people being found to have plagiarized in Korean universities they must have known this was going on and did nothing to stop it. Hopefully all these cases brought to light will cause these universities to take more measures to prevent plagiarism.
I am not Korean Person (KP), but I perfectly understand his points.
The dirty secret of academia is that it’s mostly fake and people know that. Over half of the papers can’t be replicated. Cheating is widespread and politely ignored so long as not embrassing to the institution. Many fields of research are more or less make work programs.
Even the STEM programs are mostly fake. The curriculum is easily decades out of date, and anything of real value is going to be learned on the job because it’s a trade secret, classified, or not yet discovered yet.
The one real value of univsersity is networking with smart people which is arguably deminished when these days everyone seems to go to college. If money isn’t a concern, I suppose there’s luxery value in college as far as having a good time for 4 years.