Yonhap News reporter Hwang Jin-hwan
Amid the daily controversy over the plagiarism of Kim Kun-hee, the wife of President Yoon Seok-yeol, master’s and doctoral researchers at Kookmin University strongly criticized “Kookmin University has become a hostage to a huge fraud threat manipulation play.” Last month, when the Kookmin University Research Ethics Committee concluded that Kim’s four papers, which had been accused of plagiarism, were “not plagiarized”, a backlash continues in various fields.
On the 8th, the members of the ‘Kookmin University Master’s and Doctorate Researchers Association’, which consisted of about 10 researchers with master’s and doctoral degrees from Kookmin University, issued a statement and said, “The plagiarism controversy is “It’s over,” he criticized.
They said, “Watching this situation that completely denies and insults all the achievements and pride achieved through sweat and tears, who studied the entire master’s and doctoral research courses at Kookmin University, any further silence and indifference, as researchers I have come to the conclusion that I am acknowledging that I burned myself down.”
“Currently, Kookmin University has become a hostage or at least an accomplice in an ugly and absurd gigantic fraudulent threat manipulation play,” he said. It is in the ‘question’ of whether it was pushed to the point of driving the downfall of Korean intellectual history in the end.”
Officials of the ‘Pan-academic National Inspection Team for Inspection of Plagiarism of Mrs. Kun-hee Kim’, which consists of 14 organizations including the Federation of Korean Private University Associations, held a public briefing at the Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 6th. We are announcing the results of our own verification that all three published papers are plagiarism. yunhap news
He continued, “On the 6th, at a press conference of 14 professors and academic groups across the country, the ‘Pan-academic National Inspection Group (verification team) to verify the suspicion of plagiarism of Mrs. He said, “I completely agree that the level cannot be recognized as a thesis, and I will not explain it further.”
Previously, the verification team plagiarized part of a thesis by Gu Yeon-sang, a professor at Sookmyung Women’s University, on the doctoral thesis of Mrs. Kim’s doctoral thesis in design at Kookmin University’s Graduate School of Techno Design, “Research on Fortune Content Development Using Avatar: Focusing on ‘Anita’ Development and Market Application”. , announced that he copied and pasted some of his personal blog posts and articles. Three papers published in academic journals also stated that “plagiarism of content, sentences, and words is serious.”
In this regard, Shin Je-gu, a business administration representative of the group, said, “The situation has come to this point, and I am strongly suspicious that the silence of Kookmin University is an irresistible force in the background. We plan to take legal action if necessary,” he said.