Actress Kim Hye Jin
She revealed in interviews and news that she majored in industrial design at Hongik University and graduated with top donors. However, she's an industrial crafting major. Industrial design department is at Seoul campus and industrial crafting department is at Sejong campus. With her fake major, she was cast as a judge on an audition program 'Design Survival', but the casting happened to reveal her fake education.
Comedian Shim Hyung Rae
He completed a short-term program at an institution of Korea University, but he claimed he was a Korea University graduate for years. It was later revealed that he only completed a baking program at the institution of food engineering. In his autobiography, he even wrote, "I got into Korea University, but the major was boring."
Theater actress Yoon Seok Hwa
She was said to be an arts major at Ewha Women's University but dropped out after a year to pursue theater acting. However, she's a graduate of Ewha High School and she never attended the university. She used to flaunt her Ewha Women's University education and it helped her with her career. She called Ewha students her hoobaes and gave a lecture at Ewha Women's University chapel as an alumnus. At the lecture, she said to the students, "When I used to go to this school, the students used to find this chapel time very boring. Some of them were even cutting their nails. But looking back, it's a precious memory."
Producer Joo Young Hoon
He said in the media that he's an economics major at George Mason University, but he was revealed to be a drop-out from Northern Virginia Community College. He denied his fake education later, which turned out to be true.
Actress Choi Hwa Jung
She said she majored in arts education at Sangmyung University, but she had failed her college entrance exams and never got into the school.
Interior designer Lee Chang Ha
He said he dropped out of Seoul National University and went to study in the US, but he never got into Seoul National University and his US education was also false. He claimed he attended New Bridge University, but the university was an institution in LA Koreatown. The institution also didn't have any arts/architecture-related majors that he claimed to have studied, and the institution didn't even exist when he was supposed to be attending it.
Movie actor Lee Kyung Young
He was said to be a drop-out from medical studies at Chungnam University, but he was never a student in the program. His fake education was from his interview where he said he was a drop-out from Chungnam University and his original dream was to become a doctor. Later, he said he was accepted for medical studies at Chungnam University, but because his family was poor, he decided to major in acting at Hanyang University instead.
KBS radio host Lee Ji Young
She was said to have gone to England when she was in middle school and did her master's at University of Brighton. However, she went to England when she was attending a university in Korea and she only attended a community college in England for a year. Her master's degree was also fake.
Actor Choi Soo Jong
He was a proud graduate of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and even gave a lecture to the students at the university. In his biography, he wrote a detailed account on attending the university as a student and his profiles said he was a trades major. However, his education was fake. He claimed he never said he graduated from the university and that his profiles were his manager's mistake. He said he did get accepted for the university, and that his manager ended up falsifying it on his profile.
Actress Jang Mee Hee
Her education background was said to be Jangchung Girls' High School, Dongkuk University, Myungji University graduate school, and Bowdoin College. However, Bowdoin College doesn't give a bachelor's degree and Dongkuk University clarified that she didn't attend the school. Her high school education is also false because the high school had shut down way before.
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Pann: Celebrities who were embarrassed by falsification of education background
1. [+168, -12] Oh My Girl Yooa. She attended an institution of Sejong University but claimed to be a dance major at Sejong University and totally got embarrassed.
2. [+114, -0] All of them are trashes but I never knew about Choi Soo Jong and Jang Mee Hee. I learned how shameless they are. Faces never hide the truth... Such malicious people.
3. [+50, -0] Why would they make stupid lies like that ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
4. [+45, -1] Shim Hyung Rae was legendary... My uncle was a Korea Uni student 25 years ago and Shim Hyung Rae came to the school and gave an autograph to him.
5. [+41, -0] Doesn't Jung Rye Won have something like this, too? I got goosebumps at Yoon Seok Hwa. I knew she falsified her education but her lies are big. Even the story on the chapel... So hypocritical and fake.
6. [+36, -0] Didn't expect that from Choi Soo Jong. I thought he was a really good person.
