On the global petition platform ‘change’ (change.org), a post condemning Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon’s suspicion of child specs was posted. The author, who said “Korean-American mothers,” spanned over 5,800 characters and said, “The essence of the situation is an organized crime designed and executed by the privileged Koreans in order to enter a prestigious American university.”saying “The fact that the direct or indirect victims are our children (living in the United States) makes us angry.”claimed that
On the 16th, the petitioner using the ID ‘Miju Moms’ uploaded a petition titled ‘Korean Americans’ Statement I on Suspicion of False Specifications of Han Dong-hoon’s daughter’ and refuted the explanations made by the minister. As of 5:30 p.m. on the 17th, the number of people who signed the petition exceeded 4,480, and Change is guiding that ‘if the number of consent reaches 5,000 people, it can be published in local news’.
The author first pointed out that the writings of a minister’s daughter were published in a ‘predatory journal’ (a journal that provides money for money regardless of the topic or quality of the thesis) and said, “It will cause the public to misunderstand the unverified articles as the appearance of the thesis. The subject of the deception created is the daughter of Dong-Hoon Han, who was published in a pseudo-scientific journal under the name of an independent researcher, or the person who helped him.” This is a rebuttal to one candidate’s explanation of ‘not a thesis, but an essay level’.
Regarding the explanation of ‘I tried to document it electronically’, he pointed out, “It is the 21st century now, and if you need electronic documentation, it is enough to work with a word processor and save it on a personal drive or web hard.”
He further criticized, “Don’t reduce or water the script because it’s a correction.” “It seems unlikely that Kenyan scriptwriting experts would be needed for online correctional guidance. You can find that level even among the teachers of my daughter’s international school.”
In response to Minister Han’s explanation of ‘there are no plans to use it for the entrance exam,’ he raised his voice, saying, “It is not an indulgence.” He said, “The answer that I had no plans to use it in the entrance exam following preparing everything that might be used in an unlawful way is ‘irrational'”.
Regarding the specification of volunteer work, “It is not that it is wrong to disclose volunteer work, it is an explanation that does not match the facts, and pointing out that volunteer work that steals other people’s work (such as submitting an application for the disabled made by an outsourced developer) is a false specification.” said
He said, “What we are angry regarding is the systematic intervention of clever and cunning adults over her daughter’s specifications,” he said. said
He said, “It is our children who are disadvantaged in the entrance exam and public image due to the students who illegally build false specifications in a negative way and their parents,” he said.
Dong-Hoon Han, “Practice level writing… I don’t plan to use it for the entrance exam”
Earlier, Minister Han said, “The thesis is a short report written by a high school student for practice. There is no fact that it was used in the entrance exam and there are no plans to use it in the entrance exam. There is no fact that it was submitted to the school.” took a stand.
Regarding the allegation that the Kenyan scriptwriter was involved in writing the thesis, he explained, “My daughter once received help from an online tutor during her learning process, but she said that she never had any contact with or gave money to a person named Benson.”
On the other hand, on the followingnoon of the day following the petition was posted President Yoon Seok-yeol appointed Minister Han as Minister of Justice.did.
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