Award-Winning South Korean Author Has Book Withdrawn Over Plagiarism
Source: Wall Street Journal
SEOULOne of South Koreas highest profile authors apologized on Tuesday as her publisher confirmed it would withdraw a collection of her short stories in response to an allegation of plagiarism.
Shin Kyung-sook, winner of the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, was recently accused by another local author of copying parts of Patriotism by late Japanese author Yukio Mishima in her short story Legend, published in 1996 in a compilation of stories.
Ms. Shin initially responded by saying she wasnt familiar with Mr. Mishimas work, which was published in 1961. On Tuesday, she said she was no longer sure that she hadnt read the book and couldnt be sure it hadnt influenced her.
As I compared the sentences I couldnt believe it myself, she said in an interview with the Kyunghyang newspaper, acknowledging the similarities between passages in each book. I cannot trust my own memory, she said.
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