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How did Suh In-young become a student at KAIST?!
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Troll_Bait



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:14 am    Post subject: How did Suh In-young become a student at KAIST?! Reply with quote

While eating dinner at a restaurant, I noticed the latest show on TV. It was a reality show starring Suh In-young. Apparently, she has somehow been accepted as a student at KAIST. KAIST is not a diploma mill*, but a university known for science, engineering, and research. How did she get accepted there? Did they recently open a Department of Weaving Fashionable Baskets?





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The University has for many decades, recruited faculty from overseas. The current KAIST President Nam Pyo Suh, an authority in axiomatic design technology, comes from MIT. His predecessor, Robert Laughlin, a Nobel Prize laureate and a physics professor from Stanford University, was the first foreigner to head a Korean university. Professor Emeritus Cho Jang Hee, was a dual professor at both Columbia, New York, and KAIS, and played major role in the development of the PET scanning technology.

The vast majority of professors come from US higher education institutions.
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Young FRANKenstein



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:40 am    Post subject: Re: How did Suh In-young become a student at KAIST?! Reply with quote

Troll_Bait wrote:
KAIST is not a diploma mill

Not a diploma mill, but all unis in Korea can be dazzled by monetary donations and the publicity associated with having a celebrity attend their school.

Didn't Eugene (from SES) skip to the head of the line for her uni admission as well, without even writing the admissions exam. They took her based on her celebrity and the number of students she could lure to the school.
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doggyji



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This show.
Obviously, she's not a real student there.
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ajgeddes



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is she someone special?
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Troll_Bait



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

doggyji wrote:
This show.


Oh ... my God ... You have *got* to tell me more about this show. A giant quill ... a dancing robot ... a beaker full of bubbling pink liquid ... and did I read that right, "UniverSexy"? Don't leave me in suspense.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This would never happen in America.

Rolling Eyes
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Yesterday



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't many students in the USA get into and through University - just by playing football - with football scholarships...?
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drkalbi



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had to laugh when I saw her in an English conversation class. She couldn't even answer the most basic questions from the teacher, but when she sings, her English is native speaker like. Shocked
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Smee



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, not a ringing endorsement from university English teaching. Poor Professor Gordon. I don't tolerate that kind of attitude from my 13-year-olds, let alone a 24-year-old.

And damn, that is one ugly nose. She used to be cute before she got adjummad up.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Don't many students in the USA get into and through University - just by playing football - with football scholarships...?


Define 'many' please. A few dozen on each of the sports teams out of 20,000 or 30,000 students isn't many when you consider the millions of bucks they bring in to the sports programs.
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doggyji



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Troll_Bait wrote:
doggyji wrote:
This show.


Oh ... my God ... You have *got* to tell me more about this show. A giant quill ... a dancing robot ... a beaker full of bubbling pink liquid ... and did I read that right, "UniverSexy"? Don't leave me in suspense.
Laughing She's just temporarily allowed to study (or just spend time doing univ stuff) with KAIST students and that is being filmed in the format of a "reality show". She's apparently not an official legit student. You can imagine the rest.
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Bailsibub



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote:
This would never happen in America.

Rolling Eyes


Man, as much as I wish your statement were true...

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/tommy_lee_goes_to_college/series.jhtml
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DCJames



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

She's as dumb as a box of rocks.
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nate1983



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bailsibub wrote:
Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote:
This would never happen in America.

Rolling Eyes


Man, as much as I wish your statement were true...

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/tommy_lee_goes_to_college/series.jhtml


I think he was being sarcastic, besides Nebraska-Lincoln is not exactly Harvard (where Natalie Portman went btw).
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://img.news.yahoo.co.kr/picture/a4/20070129/20070129160910927a4_162037_0.jpg
http://images.timnhanh.com/nhipsong/20071119/Image/dh9.jpg

Harvard material surely.
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