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Six held, 209 indicted for fake degrees
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February 11, 2008
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Prosecutors said yesterday they have arrested six people for allegedly helping scores of people get degrees from unaccredited universities abroad in order to gain teaching jobs or employment as commissioned officers in the military here.
Prosecutors also indicted 209 others without physical detention, accusing them of holding fake certificates for Buddhist monks, Toeic English proficiency and Oriental medicine practitioners.
The indictment comes after a five-month intensive crackdown on “those who encroached upon people’s trust in society,” prompted by the scandal last summer in which former Dongguk University professor Shin Jeong-ah was found to have used a fake degree from Yale University in the United States to get the teaching job and a position as co-director of the Gwangju Biennale, Korea’s biggest contemporary art exhibition.
A suspect identified only by his surname Lee was put behind bars for allegedly helping 27 people get degrees from an accredited university in the Philippines to help them get awarded military commissions.
Another suspect, known only as Cho, is also detained for allegedly establishing Nobel University, which is unaccredited, to release scores of fake degrees. Yonhap |
