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My mother is visiting and she often has an interesting or story or two that I hadn't heard before.

She was an attorney in the early 1980s. There was a Korean janitor who worked in a university in Seoul, and he managed to steal a copy of the university seal. This allowed him to make very convincing forgery diplomas, so he made himself a fake medical degree.

He then got a fellowship in the US, married an American woman, and was working at a US university hospital. He did various additional forgeries, like getting a medical license from a retired doctor and altering it for himself, so he had an office filled with all sorts of fake diplomas, licenses, awards, etc. He had a private practice where he preyed on the Korean immigrant population in the city with his fake medical skills.

Anyway he was eventually caught upon further scrutiny of his documents. The judge was lenient on him and gave him a prison sentence of 364 days, which is 1 day less than a year which is the threshold for crimes that often get people deported.

Seems like a crazy story to me and could be a movie.
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Dune Messias · 66w
Paper Doctor
Bitcoin Burger · 66w
Indeed, crazy story.
Corrado Alvaro · 66w
Crazy story. Seems like an incredibly lenient sentence.
silentius-satoshi · 66w
This reminds me of that movie “Catch Me If You Can” (2002) by Spielberg starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hanks
rapadu · 66w
These kind of things were possible in the 1980s … before the digital age… In some countries they still are - not for much longer though.
Connie · 66w
A movie or a book
jimmysong · 66w
> Seems like a crazy story to me and could be a movie. Great premise for a plot!
₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 · 66w
People are really crazy and fooled. You could write us a novel lyn. What do you say? 🤔
Javier · 66w
Sounds like the FED making fake dollars 55 years ago when it became a fiat currency, but they have not get a single day of prison yet.
SwapMarket · 66w
Doctor Parasite
Fizzyl · 66w
Fiat doctor.
Leo Wandersleb · 66w
If he manages to convince thousands of patients that he's a doctor worth attending, how did he not manage to achieve higher goals than being a janitor before?
AbsurdZugzwang · 66w
U feel bad for the people who went to him for medical treatment, but I kind of impressed by his ingenuity
Arthur Morgan · 66w
that is crazy!
johnny · 66w
He was very lucky that no one got hurt.
Savil · 66w
Spent years teaching in higher education in South Korea and this article echoes the sentiments there. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/20250517/selective-morality-of-plagiarism-koreas-cancel-culture-masquerading-as-justice
Narwhal Tacos · 66w
I don’t know how I feel about my initial response to this, but having travelled widely I’m continually impressed (and driven crazy) by how many people in many countries with little upward mobility become masters at scamming. Like, the better ones think layers of scam more than the ones with no ...
nostrich · 66w
But…the judge put the safety of the public above an emotive view of the defendant
nostrich · 66w
I'd watch that movie.