Kim In-cheol, a candidate for deputy prime minister and education minister, arrives at the personnel hearing preparation office at the Korea Educational Facility Safety Center in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 14th. yunhap news
Another ‘dad chance’ suspicion is rising as it was confirmed that the son of Kim In-cheol, a candidate for deputy prime minister and education minister, wrote a thesis he co-authored with professors from Fulbright (US government-invited scholarship program) on his resume.
According to Rep. Kang Deuk-gu of the National Assembly Education Committee on the 27th, Kim’s son, Kim Mo, co-authored with professors who participated in the Fulbright Scholarship Program on his resume when he joined the Morgan Stanley (MSCI) Korean office as an intern in November 2020. wrote the thesis.
The thesis that Kim was named as a co-author is a thesis on the sustainability of the Vietnamese stock market, and was published in an overseas journal called ‘Sustainability’ in July of the same year.
Kim passed the MSCI internship and was converted to a full-time job in August of last year, and it is known that he is currently working as an analyst at MSCI.
It is known that the co-author professors participated in the US exchange professor and visiting researcher programs with Fulbright support.
They were also listed as co-authors on Kim’s daughter’s thesis, and it is reported that they also participated as co-authors in a study (book chapter) that Kim’s son and daughter were named together last year.
Rep. Kang said, “There are high suspicions that the relationship between candidate Kim In-cheol’s son was unfairly operated, such as ‘Dad Chance’ and the participation of Fulbright-related professors in co-authoring the thesis. ” he claimed.
Previously, it was known that the candidate’s son, daughter, and wife, including candidate Kim, received a Fulbright scholarship, and there was a controversy about preferential treatment.
Both parents and their children passed the Fulbright Scholarship Program, which is known to be difficult to select, and in particular, the time when the two children received scholarships coincided with the time when candidate Kim served as president of the Fulbright Korea Alumni Association, raising suspicions of preferential treatment.
Candidate Kim received a Fulbright Scholarship from 1996 to 1997 and served as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. After that, candidate Kim served as the 13th president of Fulbright Korea Alumni Association from 2012 to 2015.
Mr. Lee, the spouse of candidate Kim, received support from the Fulbright Scholarship Program from 2004 to 2005 while serving as a professor at Soongsil University, and went to Temple University as an exchange professor. Her daughter attended Cornell University’s master’s program from 2014-2016 and her son attended Columbia University’s master’s program from 2016-2018 on a Fulbright scholarship.
In response, Candidate Kim’s side explained, “Continuing to raise questions about the process in which the candidate’s family was selected as a beneficiary just because the candidate is the Fulbright alumni president is inflating baseless allegations.”
