Korean court upholds verdict in Shin case
A South Korean appellate court on Tuesday upheld the jail sentence of Shin Jeong-ah, the former Korean art-history professor who faked a Yale doctorate degree.
"Shin's allegation that she earned a doctorate degree in the United States proved false," wrote the court, according to The Korea Times. Shin, 36, will now serve 18 months in prison.
The ruling comes one year after Shin was fired from Dongguk University after her supposed doctorate was revealed to be fake, a secret she had managed to keep as she used the degree to fuel her ascension to the apex of the Korean art...
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