SEOUL: Former first lady Kim Keon Hee has been stripped of her teaching license after a private university canceled her master’s degree earlier this year, education officials said Thursday.
The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Eucation (SMOE) has recently revoked Kim’s teaching certificate after completing the relevant procedures, such as a hearing, they said.
Kim, who is now detained at the Seoul Southern Detention Center, did not attend the hearing or submit any statement of opinion, they added.
The SMOE has informed Kim, through the detention center, to review the hearing results and transcripts. The revocation will be finalized if she does not appeal the results.
In June, Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul canceled Kim’s master’s degree earned from its Graduate School of Education due to thesis plagiarism. She had obtained her teaching certificate based on her master’s degree in education. –Agencies
