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Korea University President Lee Pil-sang on Thursday resigned after 56 days in the job under growing pressure over plagiarism allegations. Lee Seung-hwan, chief of the university's external cooperation affairs, told reporters the university president decided to resign after listening to opinions from various quarters and submitted a resignation letter to Hyun Seung-jong, the director of the schoolsĄŻ foundation.
The plagiarism allegation surfaced as soon as President Lee took office. A university panel concluded he plagiarized six research papers and published the same papers under different titles in two different scholarly journals. The crisis worsened when Lee called a vote of confidence after the panel announced its findings.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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