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Suwoner10
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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 Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:38 am Post subject: Fake Monks |
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South Korea indicts 215 people over fake diplomas--report
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 15:37:00 02/10/2008
SEOUL--Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted 215 people for faking diplomas or using the forged documents to snare better jobs or positions, the Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.
A five-month crackdown discovered people who had faked university degrees, Buddhist monks' licenses or language certificates, the report added, citing unidentified prosecutors.
The Prosecutor General's office reported six people had been arrested and 209 others indicted in the probe.
The documents helped them secure teaching jobs at colleges, companies and language institutes, run Buddhist temples to collect alms and qualify as army officers.
Among those indicted were medical doctors and architects.
The probe was sparked by a case that erupted in July 2006 when prosecutors investigated Shin Jeong-Ah, an art professor with Seoul's Dongkuk University, for fabricating a Yale doctorate.
Shin, 35, was arrested in October along with her alleged lover and former top presidential economic policy maker Byeon Yang-Kyoon, who was charged with abusing his position to help her further her career.
The scandal prompted a probe into the academic backgrounds of thousands of professors and civil servants, and dozens of high-profile people have either confessed to faking their academic records or were found out.
Observers say the tendency to emphasize paper qualifications over ability, combined with lax verification procedures, tempts some Koreans to forge their academic backgrounds.
In a related move, Incheon City College said Sunday that it had decided to reprimand nine faculty members for filing incorrect details of their academic backgrounds.
Seoul's defence ministry in November said it had sacked and prosecuted 13 army officers for faking Filipino university degrees.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080210-117964/South-Korea-indicts-215-people-over-fake-diplomas--report |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: Re: Fake Monks |
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| Suwoner10 wrote: |
South Korea indicts 215 people over fake diplomas--report
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 15:37:00 02/10/2008
SEOUL--Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted 215 people for faking diplomas or using the forged documents to snare better jobs or positions, the Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.
A five-month crackdown discovered people who had faked university degrees, Buddhist monks' licenses or language certificates, the report added, citing unidentified prosecutors.
The Prosecutor General's office reported six people had been arrested and 209 others indicted in the probe.
The documents helped them secure teaching jobs at colleges, companies and language institutes, run Buddhist temples to collect alms and qualify as army officers.
Among those indicted were medical doctors and architects.
The probe was sparked by a case that erupted in July 2006 when prosecutors investigated Shin Jeong-Ah, an art professor with Seoul's Dongkuk University, for fabricating a Yale doctorate.
Shin, 35, was arrested in October along with her alleged lover and former top presidential economic policy maker Byeon Yang-Kyoon, who was charged with abusing his position to help her further her career.
The scandal prompted a probe into the academic backgrounds of thousands of professors and civil servants, and dozens of high-profile people have either confessed to faking their academic records or were found out.
Observers say the tendency to emphasize paper qualifications over ability, combined with lax verification procedures, tempts some Koreans to forge their academic backgrounds.
In a related move, Incheon City College said Sunday that it had decided to reprimand nine faculty members for filing incorrect details of their academic backgrounds.
Seoul's defence ministry in November said it had sacked and prosecuted 13 army officers for faking Filipino university degrees.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080210-117964/South-Korea-indicts-215-people-over-fake-diplomas--report |
BRAVO! I'm amazed that the chickens have finally started to come home to roost! This could be just the beginning, I wonder how many doctors, lawyers, professors, architects, teachers and even celebrities are shitting their pants waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Looks like the focus is off us for a while.  |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:11 am Post subject: Re: Fake Monks |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| Looks like the focus is off us for a while. |
Well, it doesn't help that we burned down Namdaemun.  |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:13 am Post subject: |
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whatever,
You saw that asinine posting on the KT forums by dplikesboys? What a tool!
Faking a Buddhist monk's ordination certificate "to qualify as an Army officer" means that someone's gotten themselves a Chaplaincy in the ROK Army by fraud. Wow. How crass. |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:20 am Post subject: |
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| Gee, I don't see how this applies to me, but...go on, kiddo... |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| dplikesboys is the tool, not you. |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Wow....to tell the truth, this is not news to me.......
During one of my last trips to Insa-Dong, me and my ex-wife came upon a monk that supposedly came to Korea from China to collect "donations" for his monastery in China (or at least that was what my ex was able to translate from him).......We had just came from the movies and buying gifts for our parents and all I had left on me *literally* was 500 won and I was more than willing to give it to him........Boy! Did his face cringe at getting such a miserly amount and he took out a notebook with the recorded amounts that other foreigners have given him (onway up to 30,000won......crazy!) and he waved my coin away and walked off........all the while I was thinking, what a pious pr!ck............Whenever I made a trip to busan and there were a Bhuddist monk asking for donations, they never turned away my money........what makes one contribution more worthless than the next? |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Doctors... somewhat scary... |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
| ...what makes one contribution more worthless than the next? |
That's a question of biblical proportions 
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Mark 12: 41-44
41And He sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the crowd was casting money into the treasury. Many rich [people] were throwing in large sums.
42And a widow who was poverty-stricken came and put in two copper mites [the smallest of coins], which together make [q]half of a cent.
43And He called His disciples [to Him] and said to them, Truly and surely I tell you, this widow, [she who is] poverty-stricken, has put in more than all those contributing to the treasury.
44For they all threw in out of their abundance; but she, out of her deep poverty, has put in everything that she had--[even] all she had on which to live.
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
| lastat06513 wrote: |
| ...what makes one contribution more worthless than the next? |
That's a question of biblical proportions
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Mark 12: 41-44
41And He sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the crowd was casting money into the treasury. Many rich [people] were throwing in large sums.
42And a widow who was poverty-stricken came and put in two copper mites [the smallest of coins], which together make [q]half of a cent.
43And He called His disciples [to Him] and said to them, Truly and surely I tell you, this widow, [she who is] poverty-stricken, has put in more than all those contributing to the treasury.
44For they all threw in out of their abundance; but she, out of her deep poverty, has put in everything that she had--[even] all she had on which to live.
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Wow, that Jesus dude sure was smart, never would have figured that one out on their own.  |
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