Nominee Jin-sook Lee's Thesis Not Plagiarized or Duplicated

[Financial News] Regarding the plagiarism allegations of nominee Jin-sook Lee's thesis, the Korean Institute of Architects and the Korean Society of Color Studies submitted a statement to the National Assembly's Education Committee on the 14th, stating that it does not constitute plagiarism or duplication. Nominee Jin-sook Lee stated, "I will clarify the issues that have arisen so far at the ministerial personnel hearing to be held on the 16th."
First, the Korean Institute of Architects stated in its position paper that it has been publishing papers through a strict blind review process since 1985, and nominee Jin-sook Lee's paper also followed this procedure. It explained that the domestic thesis plagiarism detection system was commercialized in 2011, and the association has been using the Korea Research Foundation's thesis similarity detection system since 2019.
The association emphasized, "Academic presentation papers are for the purpose of sharing ideas, and they can be supplemented and submitted as regular papers, and the order of authors can be adjusted." It also added, "Student papers are generally influenced by the overall research process of the supervising professor," and expressed that "the association will continue to strictly adhere to academic ethics."
Subsequently, the Korean Society of Color Studies expressed that nominee Jin-sook Lee's two academic papers are not duplicated. The society explained, "Although the two papers were conducted in the same experimental environment, they measured and discussed different dependent variables, 'fatigue' and 'unpleasant glare,' respectively, making them differentiated studies." The research published in the Korean Society of Color Studies journal is a qualitative perspective study on 'emotional cognition' experimenting on the perceived degree of fatigue due to lighting effects, while the research published in the Lighting and Electrical Installation Society journal is a physical perspective study on 'visual perception' experimenting on glare perception due to lighting effects, highlighting a clear difference.
The society cited the 'Integrated Guide to Research Ethics for Practitioners' published by the Korea Research Foundation in 2021, providing the basis that 'even if it is a single experiment, if the results and meanings are different, it can be viewed as separate papers, and publishing in two academic journals is not unfair duplication.' It also added that the review and publication confirmation of the Korean Society of Color Studies papers took place in January-February 2018, before the publication of the Lighting and Electrical Installation Society paper (March 2018), so there was no subject to verify duplication at the time of review. 

monarch@fnnews.com Kim Man-gi Reporter