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jwbhomer
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 Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: Fake diplomas - a cautionary tale |
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This story is from the Toronto Star, 14/7/07
[b]3 Canadians arrested in Seoul over false papers[/b]
Three Canadians have been arrested in Seoul and accused of using false documents to get teaching jobs in South Korea.
Kwonyoung Jang, consul for South Korea in Vancouver, said a man from Winnipeg, one from Toronto and another from B.C. were arrested. The Winnipeg man is accused of paying $300 for a false University of Manitoba education degree in order to obtain a visa to teach in Seoul. Seven others were arrested in the police sweep.
[b]Comment from JWB[/b]
Note that it says "arrested" -- not fired, not deported, but ARRESTED. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| this happens every day in korea. i was working there in 2001-02... even getting caught doing privates outside your school is taken seriously over there. |
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jwbhomer
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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Just to be clear, I'M IN FAVOUR of any steps taken to week out those who are posing as qualified FTs by using fake diplomas and certificates. There are still a lot of them out there, it seems, and they're the ones who give others a bad name. Yet we still have people here (on Dave's) who will tell you where to go to get a fake degree.
As for giving private lessons being an arrestable offence in South Korea, I think that's more than a little extreme. At most that's breach of contract, a civil matter. |
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