Hot on the heels from an endless string of forgery cases that took the peninsula by storm last year, KBS found it in themselves to question the academic validity of this one particular American college claiming that the university appeared to be a “phony school whose name was not found on any website of reliable agencies, such as the California state government.” Now as profoundly bold as that may sound, I find it to be a little odd they’d be thumping the word ‘reliable’ around in this here neck of the woods given the impressive list of reputable figures who made it through many doors under false pretenses. The damage? 3 million big ones.
A hefty sum for finger-pointing.
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ha ha ha ha ha! i thought you were implying the college was suing for won!
perhaps a clarification is needed. 3 million won is chump change, but 3 million dollars is something else.
Yuin University is one of those phoney-baloney, only-in-California colleges of oriental medicine and New-Age nonsense that litter the coastline.
Bad news for KBS, though, and for Korean “journalistic standards”: It’s a real school — as “real” as any of the California-only colleges are. (Probably of equal caliber as Lordland University.) And definitely findable on a “reliable” government website — the fifth search result on Google for “Yuin University” takes one to the State of California Postsecondary Education Commission page listing Yuin University as a state-approved institution.
But as Yuin University’s primary subjects are oriental medicine and theology (i.e., utter bunk), most of the professors are Koreans (with a few Chinese and a couple Persians and white folks thrown in for good measure), and its most well-known graduate is “Dr.” Ilchi Lee (nee Seung Heun Lee), founder of Dahnhak and discoverer of “Brain Respiration” (and one of the “50 World Greatest Religious Leaders”! Just Ask Him!) — my suspicion is what Yuin University (and Lordland?) mainly offers is a lot of easy I-20s for Koreans who want to come dick around in Southern California.
Luckily, Yuin University is Straight Outta Compton, so those Koreans who had to travel to Southern California to be able to study oriental medicine (we know there’s limited opportunities for study of that here) can hang around with all the brack people they so enjoy.
I for one am glad KBS is now being called to task for their deceitful and cowardly journalism. They seem happy to slander American English teachers, insinuating that they are mostly criminals and, knowing that none of them will probably step forward to sue them for slander, indirectly slander foreigners. Though I am not an English teacher, I still get some hostility from people who obviously think I am an English teacher when they see me and, for that, I hope KBS and several PDs pay dearly for their evil arrogance.
Any day they’re going to find out my PhD in Uranium Mining and Proletarian Dance from Enver Hoxha University is bullshit. What to do…what to do… Ah! Yuin looks like the answer!
Brendon, regardless of your personal opinion on this, I’m sure the KBS statement was only a cultural misunderstanding (defense of cultural relativity). “The Korean broadcaster is looking for a lawyer to represent it in the U.S.”
#2,
I was going to link to the same exact page.
I don’t want to name names, but some search engines are inferior to others. I used Google. Typed ‘Yuin University’ and 0.2 seconds later I had the .ca.gov link. Someone needs to realize that what may not turn up on one search engine could turn up on an other one.
Saw the “uni’s” name and immediately though Koreans were involved - thanks Brendan for the write up.
Possibly Yuin and someone at KBS concocted the scheme so that Yuin gets a nice settlement and the someone at KBS gets a nice kickback.
I never really subscribed much to conspiracy theories, but over time I’ve seen enough shenanigans here that just about anything is plausible. That’s what happens when one’s brain gets too much respiration - one’s common sense is exhaled.
A legal question. Why is that Yuin can file suit in the States when the alleged defamation occurred here?
Well, since KBS is broadcast in here in the States, they’re liable under US law for any defamation that gets broadcast here. There’s also the possible argument that, since the alleged defamation was aimed at a school here in the US, and presumably caused some damage (although 3 million seems a bit high for an (allegedly) not-even-third-rate California College) they should be able to gain jurisdiction, even if the defamation presumably occurred in another country.
Ok, so a cursory look through all the links shows that Koreans are not above combining their nationalistic 5000 year old bullshit with pseudoscientific feel good new age well-being bullshit, and including a nice side helping of cult leader bullshit.
Duly noted.