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Star instructor Seol Min-seok, 50, acknowledged the suspicion of plagiarism for his master’s thesis and announced that he would be leaving all programs.
After the controversy over the distortion of history, the suspicion of plagiarism of the master’s thesis was raised, and it crashed at one point, but the apology was clear.
On the 29th, Seol Min-seok said on his Facebook page, “We apologize for causing inconvenience and concern to many people due to the plagiarism of the master’s thesis that was reported today. I lowered my head and apologized, “he wrote, saying,” I will feel the responsibility and will get out of all the shows that will appear in the future.
“I neglected my research while writing the ‘Study of Ideological Controversy in the Description of Modern and Contemporary History Textbooks of Korea’, which I submitted as a master’s thesis in the Department of Education in History of the Graduate School of Education in Korea. Yonsei University in 2010, and neglected citations and footnotes in the process of referencing other articles. “I admit that I did,” he admitted the mistake, saying, “My mistake is without excuse.”
Furthermore, “as an educator and person who studies history, I deeply apologize once again for my uneasy attitude,” he said. “I apologize for touching everyone who believed in my lectures and broadcasts, academics and educators who are hard at work in academia. Excuse me.
According to the entertainment media dispatch that day, the master’s thesis ‘Ideology Controversy in Korean Modern and Contemporary History Textbook Narratives’ presented by Seol Min-seok when he graduated from the School of Graduates of Education from Yonsei University in 2010 showed a 52% plagiarism rate in analysis of the thesis plagiarism check site ‘Copy Killer’. .
Seol Min-seok’s master’s thesis consisted of a total of 747 sentences, of which 187 sentences had a 100% plagiarism rate and 332 questionnaires were analyzed.
In particular, ‘Copy Killer’ judged Seol Min-seok’s thesis conclusion ‘Chapter 5 Conclusion and Suggestions’ and the Sogang University Graduate School of Education 2007 Master’s thesis conclusion to be 100% consistent.
Minseok Seol majored in theater and film chemistry at Dankook University, and received a master’s degree in 2010 from Yonsei University Graduate School of Education with her thesis on ideological disputes in textbook description in modern history. and contemporary Korean.
Since then, in about 2002, he received the title of star lecturer by teaching Korean history online, and by entering television, he gained popular popularity with overflowing talks.
MBC’s ‘Guys Cross the Line’, ‘Guys Cross the Line Returns’, EBS’History of Seol Min-suk ‘, tvN’Recently Bookstore: I’ll Read’ and ‘Seol Min-suk’s Naked World History’ for many years made .
However, his impressive lectures went beyond words several times and led to controversy.
In 2014, at ‘Seol Min-seok’s Special Conference on Martial Arts in Korean History’, he was sued for damages for disproportionate comments related to the March 1 Movement. I also went to.
Over the past 10 days, he was overwhelmed by two history distortion controversies and suspicions of thesis plagiarism, and in the end, he said, “I am terrified because I cannot meet undeserved expectations and trust” and “I will learn more and I will go back to studying with a humble mind after leaving all the shows that appear in the future. I bowed the rules.
Seol Min-seok will be down on tvN’s ‘Seol Min-suk’s Naked World History’ and MBC’s ‘Guy Crossing the Line Returns’. In the case of ‘Seol Min-seok’s Naked World Story’, which has aired up to episode 3, the show is in danger of being abolished.
In response, the production team said, “It’s okay to exit the show, but the show’s direction is undecided. When a specific direction is decided in the future, I will convey the position. ”
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