Fake art degrees? Government officials calling themselves national heroes to cash in? Chairman of the Independent Commission Against Corruption taking bribes from the sad clown? Just to show things can get sillier, check out the fake belly-dancer in Kwangju.
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Who cares! Can she shake it or not, that’s all I need to know.
Saw this on YTN last night on the way home. What a total waste of airtime.
Exactly. What’s a degree got to do with being able to belly dance?
If you are like me, anytime now that you hear a Korean speak words of praise, in breathless tones, of a colleague or celebrity who studied at a university overseas, you just chuckle to yourself. As in, “Maybe they did; maybe they didn’t — but I don’t care anymore. Let’s put more emphasis on a person’s character than his degree.
Really, I don’t want to hear anymore about where a Korean studied. It’s lost any meaning here.
MJW, are you one of those drivers who frightens me because you watch TV whilst driving? I don’t want to assume, but that’s scarrier than a belly dancer without a degree any day.
ooops! you caught me!! but i’ll tell you this, i never chew gum while watching TV while driving (well, except when after drinking)….
why in Korea is it illegal to talk on your cellphone while driving, but watching DMB on your dashboard seems to be ok?
a silly as it may be to have a fake degree holding belly dancer teaching at a university, we’re talking about a society where a teacher is actually revered, so when it comes up that anyone of them might be a hack, a fraud, an alcoholic, or a womanizer, the sense of betrayal runs pretty deep.
“we’re talking about a society where a teacher is actually revered”
I’ve got a class of ‘cell phone and a pack of smoke’ students that would probably disagree with you.
The stories of Koreans having fake degees are lies. Only foreigners have fake degrees in Korea. Even if these stories were true, which they are not, the ideas of forging a degree, plagiarism and cheating on tests were introduced by western societies anyway.