Former SKorea art professor jailed for forging US degree

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SEOUL (AFP) — A South Korean court Monday sentenced a former university art professor to 18 months in jail for forging her US degree certificates, officials said.

The Seoul District Criminal Court found Shin Jeong-Ah guilty of forging undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Kansas and Yale University to secure a job at Seoul's Dongguk university.

With the fake degrees, Shin, 35, also won a co-directorship of the country's largest contemporary art exhibition. She has quit both posts.

She was a friend of Byeon Yang-Kyun, 58, who was dismissed last year as a top policy adviser to then-president Roh Moo-Hyun because of alleged corruption.

The court handed down a suspended one-year jail sentence to Byeon, along with 160 hours of...