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The daughter of the Secretary of State's Attorney General was identified as the first author of a medical dissertation after only two weeks of internship in high school. Specialist controversy arose as high school students pointed out that it was impossible to write it.

I'm Ahn Sang-woo.

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This is a paper published in the Korean Journal of Pathology in March 2009.

The article analyzes the genes of newborns with ischemic hypoxic encephalopathy.

The first author of this paper, however, is the daughter of his country's Attorney General.

Although I was a high school student in a high school at the time, I was listed as the first author of a research paper.

Cho's daughter, Jo Mo, was a high school student at the time and interned for only two weeks at the Dankook University Medical Science Research Institute.

Therefore, it is pointed out that Mr. Cho was inadequately listed as the first author just because he participated in the writing process for two weeks.

In addition, if the paper is analyzed in detail, sample collection for writing the thesis was in progress before Mr. Cho participated as an intern, and the content of the dissertation was not included in the high school curriculum.

Candidate Cho explained that the article was listed as the author's decision by the academic advisor and that he was evaluated in good faith in the internship program provided by the school.