As South Korean star lecturer Seol Min-seok, 50, announced that he would stop broadcasting activities due to suspicion of plagiarism for his master’s thesis, the programs he was appearing also officially announced his departure.
MBC TV entertainment’Guys Crossing the Line Returns’ announced on the 30th that “Seol Min-seok is getting off the program” through a notice on the viewer’s bulletin board.
He added, “We are discussing the direction of the future program,” and “This week’s broadcast will be cut off.”
The TVN entertainment show’Seol Min-seok’s Naked World History’, which started its first broadcast on the 12th, also said, “It is correct for Seol Min-seok to get off.”
However, it said that it is in the process of arranging its position on the abolition of the program.
Mr. Seol admitted through social media (SNS) that he neglected to write citations and footnotes in the process of referencing other papers. He expressed his position, “I will take full responsibility and get off all the shows that are appearing.”
In 2010, he published a thesis called’A Study on the Ideology Controversy in the Description of Korean Modern and Contemporary History Textbooks’ at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Education, but raised suspicion of plagiarism, saying that the thesis was more than 50% the same as the thesis written by Sogang University Graduate School of Education in 2008. .
Earlier, Seol was criticized by Kwak Min-soo, head of the Korean Institute of Egyptology, for explaining the history of Egypt broadcasted through’Seol Min-seok’s Naked World History’, and the birth of’R&B (Rhythm & Blues)’, which was talked about on the YouTube channel. The background was also strongly criticized by music critic Bae Sun-tak, saying, “It’s the same as spreading false facts.”
/yunhap news
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