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Singer Hong Jin-young’s master’s thesis was finalized as plagiarism. Accordingly, the degree is also canceled. Hong Jin-young also admitted his allegations of plagiarism and sought forgiveness from the public, but public opinion is still cold. Hankook Ilbo data photo
Singer Hong Jin-young’s master’s thesis was finalized as plagiarism. Accordingly, the degree is also canceled. Hong Jin-young also admitted his allegations of plagiarism and sought forgiveness from the public, but public opinion is still cold.
On the 23rd, Chosun University said, “Hong Jin-young’s master’s thesis has been determined as plagiarism and is undergoing a procedure for canceling the degree.”
Earlier, Hong Jin-young obtained a master’s degree in 2009 from the Department of Trade at Chosun University, and three years later, in 2012, obtained a doctorate. However, it was known that his master’s thesis,’A Study on the Trends of Cultural Contents Industry through Hallyu’, recorded a plagiarism rate of 74% as a result of the’Copy Killer’ test for plagiarism deliberation site.
At the time, Hong Jin-young strongly denied such suspicion, and Hong Jin-young also said through his SNS, “I split my time and did my best to write the thesis. But what was considered a custom at the time is only a few percent now. It is judged, and whatever I say, it seems frustrating and upset,” asserting innocence. Revealed.
Nevertheless, the controversy continued. In particular, the suspicion grew by a former professor of trade at Chosun University A, who taught Hong Jin-young, in an interview with a media, saying, “Since Hong Jin-young’s father is a professor at Chosun University, we cannot deny that breathing worked in the process of obtaining a degree.”
To make matters worse, the Chosun University side also temporarily concluded that Hong Jin-young’s thesis was plagiarism on the 15th, and Hong Jin-young was in crisis. The Research Integrity Committee under the Chosun University Research Ethics Institute temporarily judged Jinyoung Hong’s master’s thesis as plagiarism and requested his answer.
On the 18th, Hong Jin-young, who had been silent for three days afterwards, said, “I will accept the provisional conclusion of plagiarism from Chosun University and I will deeply regret it. I will acknowledge and reflect on everything.” “The day of my comeback with the new song, an article about plagiarism came out. What to say. I was so scared of what to do, and my head became white. I also thought that I would give it to you. I don’t know if I was just thinking about getting out of it,” he admitted to the plagiarism and apologized.
The controversy over Hong Jin-young’s thesis plagiarism seems to end when Chosun University finally decides the thesis as plagiarism and proceeds with the procedure for canceling the degree. However, despite the time to reveal the truth and ask the public for forgiveness many times, the gaze toward Hong Jin-young’s choice, who tried to cover up his mistakes with repeated lies, is still terrifyingly cold.
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