Ilukirjanduse lugemise kasulikkusest

8/14/2013

Venemaa opositsiooni üks liidreid, eelseisvate valimiste Moskva linnapeakandidaat Aleksei Navalnõi hoiatas juba kaks nädalat tagasi, et tema vastu sepitsetakse hulgaliselt provokatsioone. Nii juhtuski. Ta sattus kõikide erakondade massiivse rünnaku alla, kusjuures just Jedinaja Rossija (tema põhivaenlane) hoiab end varjus. Küll on teda süüdistatud rassismis ja vene natsionalismis (Jabloko), küll korruptsioonis ja ebaseaduslike materjalide omamises (Spravedlivaja Rossija). Kuid avalöögi andis liberaaldemokraatliku erakonna esimees Vladimir Žirinovski, kes teatas, et Navalnõid rahastatakse välismaalt ning prokuratuur avastaski välismaalt tulnud annetusi.

"Me hindame positiivselt, et peaprokuratuur leidis Navalnõi kampaania välismaise finantseeringu. Me kahtlustasime seda alati. Tal on avatud arve juba 1990. aastal, kui ta stažeeris Yale'i ülikoolis. Seal ta ka värvati, nagu Nemtsov, Kasjanov, Rõžkov, Kasparov. [...] Seepärast hakkame me nõudma, et kohtuotsus toimuks ruttu, et alustataks kriminaalasja [...] Kas see ei näita, et kõik see on organiseeritud CIA poolt?! Riigidepartemangu poolt?! USA saatkonna poolt Moskvas?! Pool maailma aitab Navalnõid! [...] Asi otsekohe kohtusse, kohtuotsus -- võtta maha valimistelt ja saata kolooniasse. Sinna Hodorkovski juurde. [...]

Vot kümme aastat, nagu Hodorkovski, hakkab istuma, tuleb välja 2023, kui tuleb. [...] Tal pole vaja mitte valimistele minna, vaid vangi. Vot see on tema saatus: istuda vangis nagu Hodorkovski. Ja Hodorkovskile peab osaks saama kolmas karistusaeg. Tema, nagu krahv Monte Cristo, peab istuma igavesti. Ja surema seal. Ja maetama vangla kalmistule. Samuti Navalnõi."
Seda sisukat intervjuud on mõttetu kommenteerida, juhiks tähelepanu vaid viimasele eskapaadile. Dr. Freud rõõmustaks selle üle kindlasti. Kui Vladimir Žirinovski mäletaks Dumas' teost, siis teaks ta, et Edmond Dantès, kes pääses vanglast ja naases tagasi krahv Monte Cristo nime all, maksis karmilt ja veriselt kätte kõikidele oma vaenlastele. Ilmselt alateadlik hirm sellise võimaluse ees põhjustaski Žirinovski lapsuse.

Aga mis puudutab Venemaa poliitilisi arenguid ja Navalnõi perspektiive, siis see on liiga tõsine jutt, et seda siin riivamisi käsitleda.

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8/24/2013 02:35:39 am

Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман
Your father encounter plagiarism

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8/24/2013 02:40:33 am

South Korea professor of plagiarism was your father's papers However, plagiarism of Seoul National University in 2006, before the test would not have

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8/24/2013 04:35:44 am

Joong kown - Chin, the proffessor of South Korea copied your father's thesis.

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8/24/2013 04:38:16 am

http://skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main_square&wr_id=106620&sca=&sfl=wr_subject%257C%257Cwr_content&stx=%EC%A7%84%EC%A4%91%EA%B6%8C&sop=and

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8/24/2013 11:17:51 pm

Chin, Joong-kwon, the professor of South Korea copied Mihhail Lotman's father, Yuri Lotman's thesis

http://skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main_square&wr_id=106620&sca&sfl=wr_subject%7C%7Cwr_content&stx=러시아&sop=and

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Mihhail Lotman

8/25/2013 08:33:53 am

Ootamatu pööre: skandaal Lõuna-Korea akadeemilises maailmas. Selgus, et tuntud publitsist ja arvamusliider, professor Jung-Kwon Chin, kasutades asjaolu, et Koreas oskavad vähesed vene keelt, plagieeris oma väitekirjas jõhkralt minu isa kahte tööd. Õigupoolest polevat tema töös üldse midagi peale plagieeritud kohtade.
Asja muudavad eriti naljakaks kaks asjaolu.
1. Prof. Jung-Kwon Chin spetsialiseerib eetika valdkonnas;
2. Tema väitekirja on omakorda tsiteeritud ja ka mitte eriti korrektselt.
Niisiis, kirjandust on kasulik lugeda, võõrkeeli osata on ka hea, aga esitada loetut oma teose pähe ei ole ei hea ega kasulik.

Joe link

8/25/2013 07:23:30 pm

Hi I'm a korean student

“There’s a Time-Limit in the Examination Process of Seoul National University?”

Seoul University Announces That They Only Investigate Those Theses After 2006

Regarding the research misconduct which has recently became a hot issue, Seoul University announced that they would only investigate the allegation raised after 2006. This is nonsense and the university is heavily being criticized.

On 19th July, Seoul University’s ‘Committee for Research Integrity’(CRI) sent an official letter to ‘Center for Scientific Integrity(CSI)’( http://www.skepticalleft.com/ ). They announced that they would refuse the investigation on JoongGwon Jin’s plagiarism in his master thesis released in 1992. CSI reported it on 21st June.

CRI mentioned that they only investigate on the research misconducts which have been done after 2006, which means they did not even check whether there is actually a plagiarism in Jin’s master thesis.

After CRI’s announcement, there is a heavy criticism along the internet. Even the graduates of Seoul University are complaining. They are wondering how there can be a time-limit in the examination of research integrity.

Heejae Pyein, CEO of Mediawatch said “CRI’s decision is totally against the principle of Seoul University and the Ministry of Education. Plus, it does not fit with the global standard either. In case of Dusseldorf University of Germany, they revealed the plagiarism of the minister’s thesis written in 1980. Then they canceled conferment of the degree”.

He added “Now Seoul University, the most influential university in Korea, has refused to start the investigation due to the ‘time limit’. This is a disgrace to the nation of Korea”.

Pyein mentioned “Last year, CRI investigated the former professor Cheolsoo Ahn’s plagiarism in his 1988 thesis. Now they are showing a double-standard. We have to check whether this is due to the professor Joonggwon Jin and Kook Cho.

Meanwhile, CSI announced a formal objection to Seoul University and Ministry of Education. CSI will also file criminal and civil suits. At the same time, CSI will contact the bereaved of Yuri Lotman for a joint confrontation.

Please ask to
ori@snu.ac.kr

Your grateful father's thesis is copied by professor Jin choong kwon

Polt

8/26/2013 06:14:27 am

I'm writing again because the reply seemed to be cut-down after posting it. Please allow me to re-post my writing here again.

Dear respected professor Lotman,

We're sorry to bring this issue to your attention but we had been thinking that it would be very important to inform you this case.

As some people and the executive director of CSI wrote in your blog, they claim that the work of your father, Yuri Lotman, has been copied by prof. Jung-Kwon Chin. The point is their arguments is that Chin's paper does not meet the requirement and the standard of the theses, and also it's missing references and quotation marks. In addition, it contains a lot more bugs than any other theses examined by CSI (Центр анализа достоверности диссертаций сообщил, что диссертационная работа профессора Чина не отвечает требованиям к магистерской диссертации, так как она содержит необычно большой объем дословного перевода из одной и той же монографии. Однако в ней часто неправильно оформлены ссылки и не использованы кавычки при цитировании дословного перевода текста, что нарушает авторские права. Центр анализа достоверности диссертаций уверяет: ≪по всей вероятности, профессор Чин будет лишен ученой степени, поскольку в ней допущено намного больше ошибок, чем в каких-либо других диссертациях, ранее проверенных в нашем же Центре анализа достоверности диссертаций≫.)

Here, I would like to convey you more information regarding this issue, and hope this help you understand how this case has been evolved in an unbiased manner.

First of all, chin's full thesis is uploaded on the following website in the pdf format. You can find the attached file in

Polt

8/26/2013 06:17:48 am

First of all, chin's full thesis is uploaded on the following website in the pdf format. You can find the attached file in this post. http://www.skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main_square&wr_id=105646&page=4
You may get help from nearby Koreans to translate this article to either Estonian or Russian.

1) Chin's thesis cited all of Yuri Lotman's works which seemed to be referenced in his paper, as you can see in the above link and on page 81 of chin's thesis. In addition, <<Эстетика: Словарь>> is also cited on page 83, at the end of the thesis.

Polt

8/26/2013 06:15:10 am

the above link and on page 81 of chin's thesis. In addition, <<Эстетика: Словарь>> is also cited on page 83, at the end of the thesis.

2) In the introduction section, from page 1 to 6 of chin's paper, chin told about the objective and the limits of his thesis. Especially on page 6, chin stated that 'the objective of this thesis is to show essential characteristics of Soviet aesthetics through Lotman's idea, who is the representative theorist of the Moscow-Tartu school. Thus, this thesis is not written with the intent to evaluate his arguments. ... Here I especially aim to reveal general characteristics of his idea based on his primary work, <<Структуры художественного текста>>.
... So this thesis has very limited purpose. ...'
In short, chin clearly stated that this paper is written for no argument evaluation, but introducing Yuri Lotman's idea based on <<Структуры художественного текста>>. So he followed the reasoning and the structure of <<Структуры художественного текста>>, since this thesis is not intended for evaluation, but introduction.

3) CSI claims that chin simply copied or translated <<Структуры художественного текста>> without citation, as they said like this: 'Например, страницы 64, 66, 68 ? это абсолютно дословный, незакавыченный перевод страниц 67, 68 и 56 из монографии Ю. М. Лотмана. ≪Эти страницы являются яркими примерами прямого копирования и вставления. Ни на одной из этих страниц не использованы кавычки и не указан источник≫ ? сообщил Центр анализа достоверности диссертаций.'. All these pages, 64, 67 and 68, belong to the same section (Section 5). And chin started this section with this sentence: After reviewing the existence of texts and how they are recognized, he (Lotman) forwarded to the problem of fundamentals of the text organization.' This section itself is also devoted to introduce Lotman's ideas, as explained in the first part of the section. And then chin used poems and Lotman's analysis in this section, including these on page 64, 67 and 68. And I think that it is important to convey the exact and the same information to Lotman's analysis and examples (poems) when introducing Lotman's work, since this thesis is intended for introduction.

4) Yuri Lotman's works are cross-referenced in many parts of chin's article, which is opposed to CSI's argument. Lotman's works are cross-referenced on page 5, 10, 11, 13, 18, 23, 25, 26, 31, 33, 36, 41), which are direct quotations from Lotman's works.

5) In summary, CSI omitted some facts (including proper references and direct quotations) in its article but instead focused on improp

Polt

8/26/2013 06:15:40 am

er 'indirect quotations' from Lotman's works. But in most parts of chin's thesis, he clearly stated that 'Lotman said' or 'he (Lotman) said'. In addition, chin has already noted that his paper is for introducing Lotman's work. Even in Section 5, where pages 84, 85 and 87 belong to, chin stated that Lotman forwarded to another problem of text organization (sorry for misspelled concepts, since I'm not very good at aesthetics), and he explained how Lotman explained this problem in terms of two 'theories'. I think that CSI questions these pages because chin did not say 'he said' or 'Lotman said' clearly on these pages. The above mentioned pages, 84, 85 and 87, are devoted to explaining these two theories. I think it is hard for readers to misunderstand that this is chin's idea, not Lotman's idea.

But I understand that there are some misconducts (improper indirect quotations without using double quotation marks "") and errors in using Russian language. However, errors and misconducts should be examined in different ways.

And please allow me to explain what CSI is, and how this case has been started.

1) CSI is founded on March 10th, 2013. So its history is very short. I know that shortness of the history cannot be a problem, but during its short history, CSI has focused on targeting plagiarism of entertainers, politicians, and professors who are opposed to its supervising newspaper, Mediawatch. More clearly, to those who are opposed to the CEO of Mediawatch, Mr. Pyein (Пён Хи Дже). Pyein is a journalist, and a self-titled patriot, and also has been in very bad relationship with chin. They were even involved in the lawsuit in 2009, but not regarding this academic misconducts.

2) All the people - entertainers, politicians, and professors, who are targeted by CSI share one common thing - they belong to left-wing. So pyein has publicly named then as 'followers of North Korea' (you know Korean war between North and South Korea) and opposed to them. And in 2013, pyein and his collegue, Hwang Uiwon, founded CSI and searched for academic misconducts to pull them down. So it is questionable to say that CSI is not biased.

3) CSI firstly brought this issue to the attention on Jun 12th, 2013.
http://www.skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main_square&wr_id=105635&page=5
And it said that they would start searching misconducts in chin's paper due to many requests from many Mediawatch subscribers. The number of Mediawatch subscribers is small, around 5000 people, and calls itself as a newspaper which protects national rights and are patriots. But it is commonly recognized as ultra-right newspaper, since they are radically opposing to left-sided people and those who are opposed to the government issues.

4) CSI soon announced on the same day that it needed help to find misconducts from chin's paper.
http://www.skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main_square&wr_id=105646&page=4

5) Pyein said that chin's paper is just direct copy from Japanese book, and soon also said that chin referred to Lotman's book which is translated into Korean. All these arguments were arise before clear evidence had been founded. And you know that these statements, 'copies from Japanese book' do not exist in CSI's article any more.

6) Now pyein is saying that chin just copied Lotman's book and used it as his thesis. And it does not meet the requirement of the thesis.

7) Nobody in CSI, including, Hwang, the executive director of CSI, has neither written theses before nor holds the degree other than bachelor's degree. They may literally know what the academic system is, but they purely started this work in order to attack their political enemies. So instead of reading and understanding theses thoroughly, they focus on finding technical mistakes (or misconducts), such as omitting double quotation marks. I know that they may still belong to the category of plagiarism.

8) SNU, Seoul National University, refused to investigate chin's paper, but I don't know why. But I guess that it is because CSI has recently bombarded SNU's investigation center with many papers. In addition, even though academic integrity should be kept very clean, this should not be used in a political way, where CSI is targeting people in an unbiased way. As an example, CSI announced that it captured many academic misconducts from committee members of the TV broadcast council, but only from those who are titled as 'left-sided' people by MediaWatch. They say that committee members are abusing their rights and do not make 'good' conclusions according to CSI and Mediawatch, so they seem to use academic misconducts as 'tools' to pull these guys down. But I wonder, why CSI do not target other committee members who are 'right-sided'. They even do not say any word about these 'right-sided' people's works. That's why I'm saying that their works are politically biased. http://www.skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main

Polt

8/26/2013 06:16:16 am

http://www.skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main_square&wr_id=106695

9) In addition, there was a big political scandal in South Korea, which is still on-going issue, the government is suspected to intervene in the presidential election illegally. So there was a meeting in the House to examine this issue. During that meeting, CSI announced that one of congresswomen is suspected to violate the academic integrity, while she was stating her words against the government during the meeting. Though the academic integrity and this political issue are different ones, CSI has tried to change some political decisions or situations using their tools - detecting academic integrity.

I understand this issue would be very serious for you and your family and I also understand that there are some misconducts in chin's paper. Please refer to chin's Korean paper to take a future action if necessary.

Regards,
Polt

Huw

8/25/2013 07:56:48 pm

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mahlerian <skepticalleft@gmail.com>
Date: 2013/8/26
Subject: Reporting academic misconduct (Regarding Yuri Lotman)
To: mihhail.lotman@ut.ee

Dear Mihhail Lotman

I am honored to introduce myself to you. My name is Hwang Uiwon, the executive director of 'Center for Scientific Integrity'(CSI) in Korea.

CSI's mission is to build up research ethics by examining scientific integrity such as plagiarism of a thesis. We are quite similar to 'politplag.de' of Germany and 'Retraction Watch' of US.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/02/10/pauls-berlin-minister-resigns.html

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/08/03/interview-with-ivan-oransky-of-retraction-watch/

Moreover, we try to examine the research misconducts including both dissertations and journal articles. We also focus on the plagiarism of professors and intellectuals.

I am writing to you to talk about Yuri Lotman, your relative's book 'The Structure of Art Texts'. It is related to a serious plagiarism issue which happened recently in Korea.

We strongly believe that the bereaved of Yuri Lotman has to achive the right of this. It is extremely important for both the honor of Yuri Lotman, and the research ethics in Korea.

For detailed information of this case, please refer to the following articles. They have been covered by 'Media Watch' and we translated them into Russian for your convenience. Please refer to the attached files.

"Professor Jin accused of plagiarism "
http://www.mediawatch.kr/news/article.html?no=241004

"Professor Jin accused of plagiarism " (Russian Version)
http://www.skepticalleft.com/bbs/tb.php/01_main_square/106620

This should not be discounted just because this happened 21 years ago. Professor Jin has been employed by one university thanks to this master thesis. Many Koreans think that he is a great aesthetician. As indicated in the article, there have been victims of his plagiarism after year 2000. Apart from the two people mentioned in the article, there are at least five victims, who quotated Yuri Rotman's thoughts and sentences after mistaking as they belonged to professor Jin.

Surprisingly, Jin is still denying his plagiarism. Seoul University, which gave Jin the degree, is also refusing to go through the examination. By the time many newspapers and a TV news covered this story, they claim that all the research misconducts which happened before 2006 are not the objects of exmanination.

Without the author's confession or the official judgment by the university, this case is normally forgotten in Korea. The clear evidence is only the second proplem.

This issue can only be solved after you take an action. Therefore, we would like to politely recommend you the following procedure.

-- Please send an email to Seoul University, mentioning that you have been reported by CSI ad read the translated articles. Also, please add your inquiry that you want Seoul University to clearly investigate the truth. We would be glad if you send us the same email. --

It will be impossible to expect Jin to confess his plagiarism. But Seoul University is different. Since it is the best university in Korea, they are quite concerned that they might have a bad reputation as the university which encourages reasearch misconducts. Once you inform them about this case and request for an official investigation, they will never be able to get away from this.

Recently, Seoul University immediately started an investigation regarding the plagiarism of one of its professors. One professor in the department of politics has plagiarized the thesis of Yale University's professor. The investigation began right after the professor of Yale asked for the investigation. Please refer to the English article below:

SNU professor resigns over plagiarism in first such case

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/03/07/96/0302000000AEN20130307009200315F.HTML

I think this is extremely important for the friendship between Russia and Korea. Although we have different languages, I am sure we can communicate through an integrity. Please help us so that we can the culture of integrity can be settled in Korea, just like in Russia.

Thank you very much for your support in advance and looking forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards,

Hwang Uiwon

Email address of CSI : skepticalleft@gmail.com

Email address of Seoul University : ori@snu.ac.kr

Chang Lee

8/26/2013 03:43:15 am

Dear Mihhail Lotman

My name is Chang Lee who is Korean. First of all, I am sorry for disturbing you and apologize to you for some Korean vicious behavior belonging to the extreme right in your homepage. Please, ignore them. Their purpose announcing this issue of Mr. Chin’s mater thesis to you was very bad political raise.

If their purpose is to improve academic issues, it would be not a problem. Because, however, Mr. Chin belongs to the left wing having positive influence to Korean society, the people in the extreme right just want to find some excuses to blame him. Moreover, I have already read his master thesis which was written by Korean language. The thesis explained and interpreted your father’s book very well as Korean language to develop Korean scholarship with a good will. He has not plagiarized your father’s book. It is still useful to Korean scholars. However, surely there were still some errors because it was a master thesis. I think that you know what I mean. As you know, his thesis was written in 1992. Why do the people raise this issue, now? It is ridiculous.

Once again, because this issue is a very wicked political issue, I hope you just ignore their strange behavior. I am very ashamed for their behavior as Korean.

Best wishes
Chang Lee

Joe

8/26/2013 04:03:47 am

http://skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main_square&wr_id=106620&sca=&sfl=wr_subject%7C%7Cwr_content&stx=%EB%9F%AC%EC%8B%9C%EC%95%84&sop=and

See them seriously and talk about Jin

Polt

8/26/2013 06:11:58 am

Dear respected professor Lotman,

We're sorry to bring this issue to your attention but we had been thinking that it would be very important to inform you this case.

As some people and the executive director of CSI wrote in your blog, they claim that the work of your father, Yuri Lotman, has been copied by prof. Jung-Kwon Chin. The point is their arguments is that Chin's paper does not meet the requirement and the standard of the theses, and also it's missing references and quotation marks. In addition, it contains a lot more bugs than any other theses examined by CSI (Центр анализа достоверности диссертаций сообщил, что диссертационная работа профессора Чина не отвечает требованиям к магистерской диссертации, так как она содержит необычно большой объем дословного перевода из одной и той же монографии. Однако в ней часто неправильно оформлены ссылки и не использованы кавычки при цитировании дословного перевода текста, что нарушает авторские права. Центр анализа достоверности диссертаций уверяет: ≪по всей вероятности, профессор Чин будет лишен ученой степени, поскольку в ней допущено намного больше ошибок, чем в каких-либо других диссертациях, ранее проверенных в нашем же Центре анализа достоверности диссертаций≫.)

Here, I would like to convey you more information regarding this issue, and hope this help you understand how this case has been evolved in an unbiased manner.

First of all, chin's full thesis is uploaded on the following website in the pdf format. You can find the attached file in this post. http://www.skepticalleft.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=01_main_square&wr_id=105646&page=4
You may get help from nearby

imkoreanleft

8/26/2013 11:10:25 am

1.
I would like to thank ‘Polt’ for verifying that Jin's thesis was abnormal. ‘Polt’ defended Jin in 2). And it just shows that Jin's thesis was a ‘review article’, not an ‘original article’. Isn't it funny to confess that there is no 'research' or 'finding' in one's master thesis? In Korea, ‘confession’ is known as a 'king of the evidence'. If Jin's degree is deprived, the key evidence will be the part where Jin claimed that his thesis is not an original article, by mentioning 'the limit of my thesis'. In fact, this is a more serious rsearch midconduct than plagiarism.

2.
It does not matter whether Jin is left or right. Also, it does not matter whether CSI is investigating academic misconducts based upon its political background. The important things here are 1) whether Jin's thesis fits with the standard of master's theses and 2) whether there was a plagiarism or not. This can only be verifyed by Seoul University's investigation. VroniPlag Wiki, anti-plagiarism association in Germany, also had a political background. They focused on the right-wing politicians in Germany. Regardless of the author's ideology, plagiarism must not be accepted. If an institution such as CSI works harder, there will be no more pseudo-left like Jin. This will raise the moral authority of the left. Isn't fine at all?

passerby

8/27/2013 01:39:47 pm

Hey Plot,

No matter what you’re trying to purport, I can see that you also knew and realized that the Mr. Chin’s thesis work was wrong and wasn’t done in good faith.

So, I’d like you to remember these sayings;

- “Guilty dog barks first.”

- “A guilty conscience needs no accuser.”

The Chin’s thesis, per se, says that “It’s surely a plagiarize work!”

No matter what you trying to excuse, “Copied work is copied work and can’t be regarded as if A new creative work. And it is a commonsense that copying someone’s paper is a sort of disgraceful act such as thievery and/or extortion.

Black is black and it can’t be called as ‘White’.

passerby

8/27/2013 02:55:24 pm

Corrections to be made from L8~L10;

“A copied work is no more than a copied work and it can’t be regarded as if A new creative work. And it is a commonsense that copying someone’s paper is a sort of disgraceful act such as thievery and/or extortion."

imkoreanleft

8/28/2013 01:26:33 pm

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