Singer Hong Jin-young clarified the allegations of plagiarism for his master's thesis.



On the 5th, Hong Jin-young's management company IMH Entertainment made an official stance and said, "Hong Jin-young has sincerely participated in the research and writing process of his master's thesis'A Study on the Trend of Cultural Contents Industry through Hallyu' in Chosun University's Department of Trade."



The management company said that it was confirmed through the professor who was in charge of Hong Jin-young's master's thesis review. "When Hong Jin-young was reviewed for his master's degree, it was in 2009. It was a time when thesis was able to pass the thesis review.” The plagiarism rate is bound to be high,” he explained.



He said, "There may be misunderstandings, but I would like to convey the opinion of the judging professor that it cannot be considered plagiarism."



In addition, "In the research content other than the citations and references in the thesis, we once again confirmed with the artist that Jinyoung Hong did not plagiarize at all." Therefore, the verification method is a verification with a timely error, and this thesis is Hong Jinyoung's creation He said, "I never plagiarized other thesis."



Earlier on this day, a media reported that Hong Jin-young's master's thesis at Chosun University's Department of Trade,'A Study on the Trend of Cultural Contents Industry through Hallyu', through a public interest reporter, was reported to be plagiarism.



According to reports, Hong Jin-young's master's thesis recorded a plagiarism rate of 74% as a result of the'Copy Killer' test on the plagiarism deliberation site, and 124 of the same sentences matched 6 words out of the total 556 sentences of the thesis. He said that there were 365 results.

He added that there is no standard established by laws related to the plagiarism rate, but it is usually based on a 15-25% plagiarism rate.

It was also reported that Hong Jin-young's suspicion of plagiarism was that his father, Geum-woo Hong, was an emeritus professor at Chosun University, so he was being suspicious of the virtue.



Hong Jin-young submitted his master's thesis in April 2009 and obtained his master's degree in May of that year.

Then, in June, the next month, it debuted with'Battery of Love' and gained popularity.



(SBS Entertainment News reporter Kang Seon-ae)