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Yonsei Professor Admits Plagiarism
Ma Kwang-soo, a novelist and poet who was once convicted on obscenity charges involving a sexually explicit novel, is facing problems of a different sort. He has been accused of plagiarizing a poem written by a former student and publishing it nearly intact under his name 20 years later.
by Chun Su-jin,Sohn Min-ho, JoongAng Daily (January 5, 2007)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200701/05/200701052107323239900090409041.html

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"THE club of people accused of plagiarism gets ever larger. High-profile members include Stephen Ambrose, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Kaavya Viswanathan � of chick-lit notoriety � and now even Ian McEwan, whose best-selling novel �Atonement� has recently been discovered to harbor passages from a World War II memoir by Lucilla Andrews. Plagiarism is apparently so rife these days that it would be extremely satisfying to discover that �The Little Book of Plagiarism,� by Richard A. Posner, has itself been plagiarized."

"No wonder young people are confused, and no wonder they continue to plagiarize in record numbers, with more than 40 percent of college students admitting to copying from the Internet in 2001."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07books.html

Is it possible that plagiarism is just as common in the U.S. as it is in Korea?

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