Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Shin appeals sentence for forged degree amid media confusion

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, April 4, 2008

A Korean court may have already ruled in the matter, but it now appears that the epic saga commonly known as “Shingate” is anything but over.

Shin Jeong-ah, the disgraced Dongguk University art history professor who rode a fake Yale doctorate first to great prominence and then to great shame, has appealed her 18-month prison sentence in connection with the scandal, according to reports in the Korean media. She was sentenced Monday, which seemed to conclude a scandal that spurred a wave of resume-checking in Korea and ultimately brought down scores of others who were found to have...

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