1. The plaintiff's claim is dismissed.

2. The costs of lawsuit shall be borne by the Plaintiff.

Details of the disposition

On March 15, 2005, the Plaintiff was appointed as a full-time lecturer in the cultural and social sciences department in the college of the Republic of Korea, and on April 1, 2007, the Plaintiff was promoted as an assistant professor in the Japanese language department in the above university.

On November 1, 2010, for the appointment of associate professors and the appointment of retirement age guarantee, the Plaintiff submitted to B University a certificate to the effect that “it is confirmed that the Plaintiff does not have any single case with the same research performance as the doctoral degree thesis (including the plagiarism of other person’s research performance as well as duplicates of his/her research performance),” and submitted a thesis of Part 15 (1,500%) that meets the standards for the appointment of associate professors (400%) and the performance standards for the appointment of associate professors (1,500%) to guarantee retirement age, and on April 1, 2011, the Plaintiff is currently in office as a member of research.

B University announced by the Plaintiff to the effect that Part 19 of the thesis published by the Plaintiff’s doctor’s degree papers, other papers, etc. are overlappedly published or self-drawed in academic journals, and on September 21, 201, the Research Ethics Committee held a preliminary investigation and approved the commencement of a preliminary investigation, and completed a preliminary investigation on October 31, 201 by organizing a preliminary investigation subcommittee.

The research ethics committee approved the commencement of a full-scale investigation on November 8, 201, and commissioned a full-scale investigation committee on January 12, 2012.

On February 16, 2012, the full-scale investigation committee received a written answer from the Plaintiff, investigated whether the Plaintiff’s thesis was plagiarism, and conducted an examination on March 20, 2012, 12. Part 12 of the thesis subject to investigation falls under duplicate publication, and the act of duplicate publication is determined as “an act of seriously deviating from the scope ordinarily acceptable from other academic circles” under Article 4(1)6 of the Regulations on the Establishment and Operation of the Research Ethics Committee of B University.

Accordingly, the Plaintiff filed an objection with the B University Research Ethics Committee.