{"id":53756,"date":"2015-06-30T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53756"},"modified":"2015-06-30T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:08:37","slug":"south-korean-novelist-admits-to-plagiarizing-japanese-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/30\/south-korean-novelist-admits-to-plagiarizing-japanese-author\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean novelist admits to plagiarizing Japanese author"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SEOUL: One of South Korea’s most influential writers admitted Tuesday to plagiarizing a well-known Japanese author in a short story she published almost a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Shin Kyung-sook, 52, said in an interview with the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper that she will ask her publisher to remove the story “Legend” from future editions of a compilation of short stories published in 1996.<\/p>\n

Shin won the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize<\/a> for her internationally-acclaimed novel “Please Look After Mom.” The plagiarism accusations have shocked South Korea’s literature scene, where she has been one of the few commercially proven authors in a country that increasingly reads fewer books.<\/p>\n

A fellow South Korean novelist said last week that a passage in “Legend” was similar to the writing in “Patriotism,” a 1961 short story by Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Others later agreed. Both passages describe the sexual awakening of a young couple.<\/p>\n

Shin’s publisher initially denied the allegations, saying that the author informed the company that she had never read “Patriotism.”<\/p>\n

In the interview with the newspaper, Shin maintained that she doesn’t remember reading “Patriotism,” but added that she no longer feels certain about her memory.<\/p>\n

“After comparing the sentences from Yukio Mishima’s Patriotism<\/a> and Legend several times, I now think that [my accusers] were right to raise the issue of plagiarism,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I offer a sincere apology to the literary figures who raised the issue, all the people around me and, most of all, to the many readers of my stories.”<\/p>\n

Shin said she would take time off for self-reflection, but stressed that she will continue to write stories. Shin didn’t respond to calls by The Associated Press<\/a> for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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