Yoon Suk-yeol’s Wife Admits to Resume Padding in YTN Interview
It seems like resume padding in Korea’s universities is an ongoing problem that Yoon Suk-yeol’s wife has decided to come clean on:
The People Power Party presidential nominee’s wife is under fire for possibly exaggerating her career history on top of allegations of her involvement in academic plagiarism and stock manipulation.
Kim Keon-hee, wife of presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol, partly acknowledged in an interview with news broadcaster YTN released Tuesday that she exaggerated her credentials in successfully applying for a professor position at Suwon Women’s University in 2007. She served in the teaching job for a year.
In the application form obtained by the media outlet, Kim wrote that she served as a director for the Korea Association of Game Industry for three years beginning in March 2002, even though the association was officially established in June 2004.
She said she does not remember the details of her appointment and is in the process of verifying additional details. But Kim attested she was close to key members of the association in the past and often invited them to speak for seminars and lectures.
Kim also acknowledged that she did not win the grand prize at the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival in 2004 as claimed in the application, saying the falsely written accomplishment was her attempt to have her application “stand out” from those submitted by others.
“If that can be called a crime, that will be a crime,” she said in the interview.
Yet Kim questioned whether her falsely written application is problematic, as she was not married to Yoon at the time and was not a public official undergoing the vetting process typical of those running for elected office.
“I don’t know how this could be problematic, as I didn’t even write down these accomplishments to advance to schools or anything,” she said during the YTN interview.
Korea Herald
You can read more at the link, but I don’t think voters will hold this against Yoon especially since it occurred before he was even married to his wife. With that said you would think that universities would do some simple background checks on these resumes before hiring someone for a professor position. Some of the things Kim put on her resume would have been easy to verify.
@GIKorea
I seem to remember when Yoon went after Cho Kuk and his wife with all guns blazing, you supported the action saying it was a rightful move against a corrupt official.
Not the what Cho Kuk and his wife did was correct, but if one puts it into perspective it involved “padding” their daughter’s school records so that she could get into a good school.
Fast forward to now, we have Yoon’s wife “padding” her CV to get a teaching position at Korean universities. But instead of criticizing her move, you simply shrugged your shoulders and simply said “What’s wrong with that?”
If I were not mistaken, it looks like that you are openely supporting Yoon to the point of excusing his wife’s alleged wrongdoings, simply because he isn’t a DPK candidate and opposes the leftist agenda of the DPK.
While Cho Kuk and his wife got the brunt of your criticism because Cho was a Moon protege and a member of the DPK.
I don’t think this is an objective view of the issue at hand.
It is also interesting to note that while Yoon went after Cho Kuk and his wife, it seems like he looked the other way in regards to possible criminal allegations regarding his wife and mother-in-law.
And those criminal allegations are a lot more serious than the stuff that Cho Kuk an his wife were accused of.
The guy is running on a platform of “getting rid of the rotten and corrupt current administration”, but the above surely doesn’t make his platform convincing to say the least.
So, TOK really stands for “The Other Karen”, eh?
Wants to make resume padding a capital crime?
Let’s find a single politician who always told the truth before we start going after their spouses and children, shall we?
@TOK, I never said going after Cho Kuk’s wife was a rightful move. I just found it interesting how quickly he was to throw his wife under the bus to explain all the corruption around him. I also did not like how the media would blur Cho’s wife’s face at the time while during the Park Geun-hye investigation no one had their faces blurred. I also was not disappointed to see Cho step down though in the big picture it didn’t matter because the next Justice Minister implemented Moon’s prosecutor reforms anyway.
The big difference between Yoon’s wife and Cho’s is that the resume padding happened before Yoon married her. Cho’s wife was using her position while she was married to Cho to benefit her daughter. You think Cho Ku knew nothing of what was going on with his daughter? Then you add in the fraud charges from her involvement in a dubious private equity firm and that landed her in jail. If Yoon’s wife did something illegal then she should be charged and put on trial like Cho’s wife. So far that hasn’t happened.
@GIKorea
The big difference between Yoon’s wife and Cho’s is that the resume padding happened before Yoon married her.
Are you sure about that?
Because evidence has surfaced that she submitted a “padded” resume to Anyang University in 2013, which is one year after she married Yoon.
If Yoon’s wife did something illegal then she should be charged and put on trial like Cho’s wife. So far that hasn’t happened.
Yoon’s wife is alleged to have been involved in a stock price fixing scheme, among others.
As for why she’s not been investigated and charged, do you honestly think that a prosecutor will go after the wife of the big boss?
Let’s take his mother-in-law.
The only reason she was investigated, charged, and facing trial is because Choo Mi-ae ordered Yoon to be recused from the case.
I think you should do more research and try to understand the dynamics of the issue before making claims such as the ones above.