Sookmyung concludes first lady Kim plagiarized master’s thesis: sources

First woman Kim Keon Hee take heed to President Yook Suk Yeol’s keynote deal with through the 77th United Nations Normal Meeting on the U.N. headquarters in New York, on this Sept. 2022 picture. Yonhap

Sookmyung Ladies’s College’s inner assessment has preliminarily concluded that first woman Kim Keon Hee plagiarized her grasp’s thesis submitted to the college’s graduate faculty of training, sources mentioned Tuesday.

The college’s analysis ethics committee despatched the findings to Kim in late December, giving her till the tip of this month to attraction the choice, in response to the sources.

If the primary woman disputes the conclusion, the committee plans to assessment her attraction earlier than finalizing its conclusion, in response to the college.

Kim has confronted allegations of plagiarizing her 1999 thesis, submitted to the college’s graduate faculty of training as a part of her grasp’s diploma necessities. Sookmyung launched the investigation into the case in mid-December 2022. (Yonhap)