![]() 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. Noting one section of the video that skips, some YouTube users commented that the footage may have been edited.Ī screengrab from the video showing a professor berate two foreign exchange students.Įlvira Fidelia Tanjung, one of the students, filmed the incident outside her college accommodation on March 4. The online video shows the professor at Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, berating two female students from Indonesia for not attending his classes, as well as threatening to call the police and cancel their master’s degrees. The writer is an exchange student at Gyeongsang National University (GNU) majoring in mechanical engineering.A Korean professor has been captured on film scolding two Indonesian exchange students, calling one “not human” and “a low animal.” Professors should be respected and honored, but once they thinks they are god and treat you badly, show them that you also deserve respect. We would like to urge all foreign students here to speak up and do something while we can, especially when one is treated badly. Staff from the international office at GNU talked by phone to staff at the Indonesian embassy to clarify the problem. All we could do before we go back to Indonesia was to report this problem to the Indonesian embassy in Korea and send them the video. Those words and treatment are unacceptable we could sue him for insulting someone from another country. That video probably lasted only four minutes, but that's what happened to me almost every day during the past two years I studied under his supervision. I would like to give information to other prospective students out there, because I don't want other people to experience the same thing we did. I was shocked but I wanted the world to know how horribly he dehumanized me, record it and upload it to YouTube. He might have had his own plan behind this.Īfter the professor returned to Korea, he visited my rented room. It became very clear that my professor was trying to keep my certificate without specific reason or a clear statement. So for what reason would the professor keep our certificates from us? This case is strange, as both of us passed the course requirements and, according to the university system, were on the graduate list, the International Office said after checking with the graduate office. No one should run away with their eyes full of tears trying to keep their own certificate, but I did that on my graduation day. Is it wrong to have my own certificate? It's my right because it is mine, and has my name written on it. I ran away with it and I did so on purpose. I told them I just wanted to see my certificate, take a picture and send it to my parents. Therefore I visited the graduate office to confirm one more time about our certificates (Merisha was in Japan attending an international conference with our professor). The normal procedure is, when a student returns the graduation gown to the graduate office, they exchange it for their certificate. 22, 2013, about 30 minutes before the ceremony was to begin, someone from the department office phoned to inform me that I could not receive my certificate that day, explaining that my professor wanted to personally present it after he returned to Korea three days later. ![]() They are myself, Elvira Fidelia Tanjung, and my lab mate, Merisha Hastarina. The day full of smiles makes it easy to forget the many tedious hours of homework, reports and term papers that characterized our study time.īut that is not happening for two Indonesian students who studied at the Gyeongsang National University (GNU) majoring in mechanical engineering during the course of their master's program. Graduation day is one of the most awaited days for every student.
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