[전문] ‘Lecture error controversy over plagiarism’…

Seol Min-seok, a famous Korean history instructor, announced his intention to get off on all broadcasts. Seol Min-seok was controversial recently, such as errors in his lectures on Egypt and jazz and plagiarism of thesis.

On the 29th, Seol Min-seok said through his SNS, “I am terrible because I did not meet the undeserved expectations and trust you sent me.”

Seol Min-seok said, “I apologize for causing inconvenience and concern to many people due to the plagiarism of the master’s thesis reported today.”

In 2010, Minsuk Seol wrote a master’s thesis in the Department of History Education, Graduate School of Education, Yonsei University,’A Study on the Ideology Controversy Appeared in the Description of Korean Modern and Contemporary History Textbooks’. Seol Min-seok said, “I admit that I neglected to write citations and footnotes in the process of neglecting research and referencing other papers.”

He then expressed his apology, saying, “I am sorry for causing pressure to all those who believed in my lectures and broadcasts, scholars and educators who are working hard in the academic world.”

On this day, the entertainment media’Dispatch’ reported that Seol Min-seok’s thesis was entered into the thesis plagiarism verification site’Copy Killer’ and analyzed that the plagiarism rate recorded 52%.

Earlier, on the 19th, Seol Min-seok was controversial over an explanation error in the Egypt part of’Seol Min-seok’s Naked World History’ broadcast on tvN. In addition, I received criticism from experts for the origin of the R&B (Rhythm & Blues) genre described on my YouTube channel as’false facts’.