Shin Jeong-ah

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shin Jeong-ah
Occupation	Academic
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1972(1972-04-28)
Age	52
Birthplace	North Gyeongsang Province
Country	South Korea
Horoscope	Aries

Shin Jeong-ah Biography

Shin Jeong-ah is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on April 28, 1972 in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Shin Jeong-ah (born 28 April 1972) is a South Korean woman who lied about her academic qualifications to get the position of assistant professor of art of Dongguk University and chief curator at the Sungkok the Art Museum. The scandal erupted soon after being appointed in July of 2007 to be the the joint director of the 2009 Gwangju Biennale, when she was found to have faked her academic credentials to claim that she had earned her degrees at Yale University and the University of Kansas and Yale University. Shin received a sentence of 18 years in prison. Dongguk University unsuccessfully sued Yale University in U.S. court for at the least fifty million dollars of damages.

Yale also pointed out that Dongguk did not take action following an investigation by the Korea College Art Association reported she was not receiving her PhD from Yale. Dongguk removed Shin on the 20th of July 2007 “long after Shin’s lies unraveled,” court documents said. Yale added that, in addition to Dongguk’s slow reaction to the warning and its participation with the scandal “we think the jury will certainly consider the fact that the chairman of Dongguk’s board was convicted of soliciting and receiving an illegal government subsidy from Ms. Shin’s lover, who was an adviser to the Korean president.”

While applying to Dongguk University and the 2008 Gwangju Biennale, Shin said she earned BFA (1994) and MBA (1995) degrees at the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in April 2005. Shin submitted to Dongguk what she called her dissertation, “Guillaume Apollinaire: Catalyst for primitivism, for Picabia and Duchamp,” which was later found to have been submitted to the University of Virginia in 1981 by Greek scholar Ekaterini Samaltanou-Tsiakma. Shin’s highest level of completed education was found to be high school.

An South Korean court handed down an unconstrained one-year sentence to former Byeon Yang-kyoon who was a senior aide to the president who Shin was romantically connected. Shin and Byeon were the subject of headlines in 2007 when Byeon made use of his influence to secure Shin employed as a professor at Dongguk University. Shin was then forced to quit his position as an adviser to the then-President Roh Moo-hyun following the scandal. Byeon was ordered to complete the equivalent of 160 hours community service in exchange for exerting his influence to grant state tax advantages to the Buddhist temple that was founded by an earlier Dongguk University official who helped to hire Shin as an instructor.

Shin Jeong-ah Net Worth

Shin Jeong-ah is one of the richest Academic from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shin Jeong-ah 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shin stated that at the age of 23 , she had been saved following a gruelling 8 hours in piles of rubble from the Sampoong Department Store collapse.

While covering Shin’s problems The Daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo printed nude photos of Shin on September 13, 2007 and claimed that they proved her indiscreet relations with the Byeon Yang-kyoon. But the KPEC denied Munhwa Ilbo’ s explanation and ordered the newspaper to apologize, stating that it affected the credibility of any print media. Shin’s lawyer claimed that she was planning to bring a lawsuit against the newspaper over the libel. Munhwa Ilbo published the apology on the front of their October 18 issue; however the apology itself drew critique of The Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center and the KPEC stated that they’d review the matter to decide whether the newspaper’s announcement was a valid apology. In the final analysis, Shin filed suit over the photographs and the publication’s coverage of her in December 2008, and received the sum of W150 millions (US$113,000) in compensation in December 2008.

On 27 March 2008, Dongguk University sued Yale University for at least $50 million, claiming Yale’s actions had “severely tarnished” Dongguk University’s reputation, sparked a criminal probe, cost employees their jobs, and led to a decline in donations, government grants and student applications. Yale called the error an administrative mistake and stated that the lawsuit was without merit.

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Shin Ranked on the list of most popular Academic. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Shin Jeong-ah celebrates birthday on April 28 of every year.