It seems that the New York Times has a summary on the fake diploma fiasco that has shaken Korea. The article also discusses the background of why people would go to such lengths to forge degrees. Unlike Diogenes of Sinope, I would use more than a lantern in looking for a honest person. Perhaps a computer and a stick instead.
Diogenes Unleashed
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Which all proves one thing. You don’t need a big fancy degree (real one) to be able to contribute to society and succeed.
Diploma, unless it’s in a highly specialized major, is just a paper you can brag about.
Form over substance, form over substance . .
Apparently, this concern is big in the field of golf training in Korea as well. Not a small number of trainers with falsified backgrounds.
Even some of the ones with “real” degrees are fakes.
http://www.theage.com.au/text/.....54549.html
Korea a society that values ‘honesty’ I don’t think so.
It seems these students have good enough english to get a degree, but not a job.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/.....13448.html
What this shows is that some liars have been able to dupe the public and their employers, cm. Truly, if these people wanted to contribute to society, they could simply have done so. Nothing, for example, restricts someone interested in art from creating art; nothing prevents someone interested in spirituality from contemplation of spiritual concepts, or of sharing their conclusions with others.
Instead, they claimed to possess credentials which were well above the norm, in an attempt to ‘push’ the lie. They asssumed positions and recieved salaries that were well above the norm, too – ones which went with their vaunted but false credentials. By their lies, they took jobs that others had prepared for in earnest.
Among any contributions to they may make to society, the contribution of their lies shows their interest in self-gain at the expense of others. There is nothing noble in that.
When Korean society values honesty and integrity half as much as it values academic credentials and other indicators of status, some progress will have been made. I’m not holding my breath.
hahahaah cm most people with that opinion dont have one to begin with
anyway this goes right back to the core of korean society its ok to cheat, bribe and all the like to get ahead once you are caught pull the jacket over your head and head between the knees while you are booked in the poice station!
police station that is
Diogenes’s lantern was sufficient since he didn’t find an honest man.
The truly ironic thing is that there are so many Christian churches in Korea as well.
There are many good people here that I would do anything for but I wish the society, as a whole, would be less generous to vice in others around them. I’ve just heard that one fellow in a related field of business, to mine, has accumulated around 5 million dollars (US) in debt, but he does not worry because he feels he could turn off the phones and disappear at any moment, thus solving his problem.
This one eyed education crap puts a lot of pressure on people.
I’ve met some people with great personalities, ideas and initiative, but they are discarded by employers because they didn’t go to the right University.
Tunnel visioned employers make people take desperate measures.
Where are the TV shows and newspaper articles about the ‘low quality Koreans’? Not so appealing to make gross generalizations when the tables are turned, is it?
Actually, if it’s unsecured debt, he can in fact.
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