I don't think any Korean institution ought to be getting uppity about academic dishonesty, especially some noname university* going up against Yale. And so I found this next part a little weird. After "Levin begged [President] Oh to accept his apology" in his letter, the article continues:
However, in an interview with The Korea Times Tuesday, [President] Oh said Dongguk would take legal action against Yale over the incident. ``We can make good our friendship with Yale after we settle our losses due to them.’’
Heh, as IF. Worth reminding readers that Shin worked at Dongguk for about two years before her forged credentials were exposed. Not sure if there's a whole lot of blame to spread around. Many of us are familiar, though, with how ridiculously arduous the degree verification process can be in Korea, so all the blown calls at Dongguk are hardly surprising.
* Hilarious quotation from the website's introduction, apparently from the university's president Oh. It's slightly out of context, but still: "Our university may not be a top-ranked institution in Korea not to say of a prestigious one in the world."
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And they still never learn. I know of one foreigner who is trapped in a contract at a university, where he tried to quit because the professor he works for makes him write all her papers and books while taking academic credit for them herself.
They told him that if he quit, they'd fine him and make sure he'd never get work at any university in Korea.
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