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Star instructor Seol Min-seok, 50, acknowledged the suspicion of plagiarism for his master’s thesis and announced that he would drop off from all programs.
Following the controversy about distortion of history, suspicion of plagiarism of master’s thesis was raised, and it crashed at one moment, but the apology was clear.
On the 29th, Seol Min-seok said on his Facebook page, “We apologize for causing inconvenience and concern to many people due to the plagiarism of master’s thesis reported today. I bowed my head and apologized,” he wrote, saying, “I will feel the responsibility and get off all the shows that are appearing in the future.”
“I neglected my research in writing the’Ideological Controversy Study in the Description of Korean Modern and Contemporary History Textbooks’, which I submitted as a master’s thesis in the Department of History Education at the Graduate School of Education at Yonsei University in 2010, and neglected citations and footnotes in the process of referencing other papers. “I admit that I did it,” he admitted to the mistake, saying, “My mistake has no excuse.”
Also, “as an educator and a person who studies history, I deeply apologize once again for my uneasy attitude,” he said. “I apologize for touching all those who believed in my lectures and broadcasts, scholars and educators who are working hard in the academic world. I apologized.
According to the entertainment media dispatch on that day, the master’s thesis’Ideology Controversy in Korean Modern and Contemporary History Textbook Narratives’ submitted by Seol Min-seok when he graduated from the Graduate School of Education at Yonsei University in 2010 showed a plagiarism rate of 52% in the analysis of thesis plagiarism verification site’Copy Killer’. .
Seol Min-seok’s master’s thesis consisted of a total of 747 sentences, of which 187 sentences recorded 100% plagiarism, and 332 questionnaires were analyzed.
In particular,’Copy Killer’ judged that the conclusion of Seol Min-seok’s thesis’Chapter 5 Conclusions and Suggestions’ and the conclusion of the 2007 Sogang University Graduate School of Education’s master’s thesis were 100% consistent.
Minsuk Seol majored in theater and film chemistry at Dankook University, and received a master’s degree in 2010 at Yonsei University Graduate School of Education with his thesis on ideological controversy in the description of Korean modern and contemporary history textbooks.
Since then, since about 2002, he received the title of a star lecturer by teaching Korean history online, and by entering TV, he gained popular popularity with overflowing talks.
MBC’Guys Cross the Line’,’Guys Cross the Line Returns’, EBS’History of Seol Min-suk’, tvN’Recently Bookstore: I’ll Read’ and’Seol Min-suk’s Naked World History’ for many years did.
However, his breathtaking lectures went beyond words several times and led to controversy.
In 2014, in’Seol Min-seok’s Special Lecture on Martial Arts in Korean History’, he was sued for damages for disprompting remarks related to the March 1 Movement. I also went on to.
Over the past 10 days, he was overwhelmed by two history distortion controversy and suspicion of plagiarism of thesis, and in the end, he said, “I am terrified because I cannot meet undeserved expectations and trust.” I bowed the rules.
Seol Min-seok will get off at tvN’Seol Min-suk’s Naked World History’ and MBC’s’Guys Crossing the Line Returns’. In the case of’Seol Min-seok’s Naked World History’, which has been broadcast until episode 3, the program is in danger of abolition.
In response, the production team said, “It is correct to get off the program, but the direction of the program is undecided. When a specific direction is decided in the future, I will convey the position.”
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