An award-winning Korea studies scholar based in the U.S. is facing scrutiny over allegations that she listed fabricated citations in a recent journal article.
Two prominent scholars told NK News that they did not write the works attributed to them in the article by Aram Hur, Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
NK News also could not confirm the existence of four other works cited in the reference list for the article published in the Korea Observer, titled “Domestic Politics in 2025: South Korea’s Polarized Democracy After Martial