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He said the remark was intended to describe someone who did not keep their agreements. When contacted by The Korea Herald, the professor declined to apologize or express regret for his choice of words, again using “animal” to refer to the students. The two students also claimed they were forced to credit the professor’s son, a student at Pusan National University, as a co-author on a number of their papers despite him having no involvement. “Before my graduation, he was always telling me, ‘you are not graduating this time, you are not going to graduate this semester, I am not sure about your skill, your ability,’” she said. Tanjung claimed that the professor, who teaches at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, had previously expressed doubts about her graduating and had given her three papers to complete about a month before the ceremony. “We were not sleeping at our home at that time because we were really scared at that time, maybe he would call the immigration office, he might say we were stealing something,” she said. She and Hastarina spent the next week avoiding attempts by the college to contact them about the certificate and their whereabouts. She took then took the certificate from the office without permission. Tanjung said the incident occurred about a week after the department had told her and Hastarina they could not receive their master’s certificates at their graduation ceremony because the professor wished to give it to them directly after he returned from a conference in Japan.įeeling that it was unfair that the rest of her class could receive their certificates at graduation, Tanjung went to the graduate office and asked to see her parchment to take a photo for her family. Tanjung and the second student in the video, Merisha Hastarina, have both since returned to Indonesia. She uploaded it on The Indonesian Students Association channel on South Korea’s YouTube on April 9. Elvira Fidelia Tanjung, one of the students, filmed the incident outside her college accommodation on March 4.