When rapper is mentioned, many people will think of a man with a large gold chain and a tattoo, speaking roughly, driving a sports car to show off his rich and show off women. In South Korea, the public generally looks down on the bean-loving groups under the assembly line production, believing that they have no connotation and are tool people. But they don't want to see the underground Rapper because they think these rap tattoo-loving guys are more like a bunch of.
But at this time, there was an outlier in the Korean entertainment industry, he was the captain and lead singer tablo of the Korean Hip-Hop group Epik High. Not only is he not a rapper of the type, but he is like a genius! He worked as a singer, an actor, and hosted radio shows and published a bestseller.
Tablo, whose original name was Lee Sun-woong, was born in Indonesia and grew up living around the world with his father, who was an architect. According to Tablo, when he was in high school in Canada, he was dropped out of school because of unbearable racial discrimination and fighting with people. Therefore, when he returned to Seoul to attend high school, in order not to disappoint his parents, he worked hard to enter Stanford University. To prove himself, he also mentioned that Nicholas Tse was his high school classmate and that they were fighting together!
As we all know, Koreans have always paid attention to academic qualifications, so the TV series "Castle in the Sky", which tells the pressure of college entrance examination, can become popular. As a result, Tablo's high education has received a lot of attention. People were amazed and surprised to learn that tablo graduated from the world-class Stanford University and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and a master's degree in creative writing in three and a half years.
He often appears in major variety shows, showing off his high education and being sought after by the host. In 2009, he also married film actor Jiang Huizhen. At that time, tablo seemed to be a winner in life, he had wealth, fame, popularity and a happy family.
But at this time, a group of people because tablo's name was not found on Stanford's graduation list, and began to question the authenticity of tablo's academic qualifications. Previously, the director of the Museum of Modern Art in South Korea was sentenced to 18 months in prison on suspicion of falsifying Yale University academic qualifications. Because of this incident, South Korea has blown a wave of checking academic qualifications. The police department receives reports almost every day, and they investigate the authenticity of at least more than 100 people, including politicians, celebrities and even a monk.
So in May 2010, the group of netizens formed an Anti website that "we need to know the truth about tablo". In the view of this group of netizens, it takes at least 6 years for the average person to complete the master's degree. They don't believe tablo finished his studies in 3 and a half years, especially tablo admits that he didn't write a thesis. They named Tablo Godblo, believing that only God could graduate so quickly.
Ta really wants members to be interviewed by TV stations
They collect tablo's previous statements online and then interpret and analyze them one by one. After watching Tablo's variety show, they decided that tablo would not be able to get a high score on the SAT, nor would it be possible to get harvard and Stanford admissions at the same time.
Ta really wants members to ask to find out tablo's reasons
At that time, many Koreans believed that tablo as a public figure needed to confirm his academic qualifications, so the membership of this "TA really want" website increased, and the number of members once reached more than 200,000. The population of South Korea is about 50 million people, and the number of members is quite staggering.
Members of the site have repeatedly posted questions about his academic qualifications in major forums, and have also reported tablo's academic fraud to Stanford University. In May 2010, Tablo posted photos of his daughter's birth on social media, but instead of being blessed, he was insulted.
Previously, Tablo did not take this matter seriously, and then he really realized the seriousness of the problem. He told media netizens that they had looked up the wrong name to find their name in the graduation list, and showed his college transcripts to seoul newspapers, and his company also officially reported the case to the Seoul Internet Police Department. However, netizens believe that the transcripts presented by tablo are inconsistent with the existing transcripts of Stanford University, and believe that tablo is fraudulent.
Fortunately, at this time, Blake, the director of stanford University's academic affairs office, also issued an official letter of explanation because of this matter, which is roughly as follows:
Daniel seon woong Lee enrolled at Stanford University in the fall of the 1998-99 academic year and graduated in 2002 with a bachelor's and master's degree in English. Any suggestion, speculation, or irony about the matter would be wrong, daniel seon woong Lee is an alumnus of Stanford University with a good reputation.
Under normal circumstances, this drama should end here. But surprisingly, although these netizens recognized Daniel Lee's results at Stanford University, they did not think that Tablo was Daniel Lee, they thought that Tablo had fraudulently used other people's transcripts.
So, the netizens looked around for evidence, and finally they found a mechanical engineer Daniel Lee who graduated from Stanford University in 2002 on Facebook. Netizens believe that tablo is stealing the transcript of this real Daniel Lee living in the United States.
However, Stanford Dean of Academic Affairs Black said two Daniel Lee graduated from Stanford in 2002. Faced with the slap in the face by the Director of Academic Affairs, these "TA Really Want" members were furious, saying that the school had received benefits and would deliberately shield Tablo.
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In August 2010, Tablo showed the media his Canadian residency card, confirming that he was Daniel Seon Woong Lee. Unexpectedly, 4 South Koreans filed a lawsuit against him for forgery.
The media reported on the lawsuit, and also told the questioning regulations of the members of the "TA Real want" one by one. For example, some netizens reacted to the fact that tablo's resident card did not have his signature, the eye color was not correct, and the photo should be colored. Because of these problems, the whole thing fermented rapidly, and passers-by roared on the road to ask tablo if he had falsified academic qualifications and identity fraud.
Under enormous pressure, Tablo breaks up with the inaction brokerage company and suspends all activities!
However, TA Real Wants members targeted Tablo's family. Tablo's sister and brother graduated from Cornell University and Columbia University, respectively, so members called his sister and brother's company and asked them to conduct a credential review.
There is a website that records tablo's brother graduating with a master's degree from Columbia University, when in fact his brother was a graduate student and did not officially graduate. Because of this matter, netizens kept calling their brother's company to report it, and finally tablo's brother was dismissed.
In addition to his brothers and sisters, Tablo's parents have not escaped the poisonous hands of these netizens. Someone found on the Internet that there was an old newspaper in the United States in 1995 that tablo's mother participated in the hair styling competition and won the gold medal. However, this news is wrong, so netizens think that tablo's entire family has integrity problems.
As a result, the addresses and phone numbers of Tablo's parents, brothers and sisters were all maliciously leaked. In the beauty salon run by tablo's mother, ta's real members would pretend to be police officers and chase away guests. They often receive harassing phone calls, they also receive death threats, and their lives are seriously affected!
This incident made Tablo feel ridiculous and painful, because as a singer, he did not have to fake his academic qualifications, but now he had to prove his identity. What is speechless is that no matter how he proves it, the members of "TA really want" just don't want to believe him.
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In fact, sean lim, the host of Arirang TV in South Korea at the time, was tablo's college classmate. When he came forward to prove that Tablo was a Stanford graduate, he was threatened. Even if he goes to the "TA Real Want" website to respond positively to those questions, his posts will be deleted immediately and his account will be frozen.
As things got into trouble, with the help of the TV station, Tablo decided to go back to school to verify the authenticity for himself. Tablo took the film crew to visit the places he frequented, as well as where he worked. Tablo's college classmates shared anecdotes about Tablo's school days and expressed disdain for academic skeptics.
At the Registrar's Office, Blake and several other teachers personally received tablo, and they indicated their recognition of tablo through a video camera. The director of academic affairs, Blake, also explained the reasons for the different patterns on the original transcript, and once again printed and checked tablo's original transcript to prove tablo's innocence.
In fact, everything is simple! Tablo was a smart kid who did only take three and a half years to graduate from Stanford and get his master's degree! The teachers at Stanford University all recognized his intelligence and talent.
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When tablo's program was broadcast, media reporters all sided with him, but the members of "TA Really Wanted" launched an attack on the program team. They believed that the program group received benefits to fake tablo, and even exposed the personal photos and information of the program group PD, calling for a joint attack.
After that, Tablo sued the 20 most aggressive "TA True Wants" members in court. However, due to the difficulty of online forensics and the wide range of reasons involved, this lawsuit has been pulled for a long time. Later, after several police investigations, they found that the perpetrator of the incident was Kim Eun, a 57-year-old Korean-American businessman in Chicago. Although the police asked him to return to South Korea for investigation, he still said: "What I posted is fair and I will not go back to be investigated." ”
It wasn't until July 2012 that the Seoul District Court tried a case of netizens spreading rumors about Tablo. The court sentenced two netizens who defamed Tablo to 10 months' imprisonment each, and sentenced the other four netizens to 8 months' imprisonment with a two-year suspension of execution, and a 10-month sentence with a two-year suspension of execution.
These prisoners deserved it, and the only one who was hurt in the whole thing was Tablo and his family. Tablo suffered from depression because of this incident and once wanted to commit suicide, but for the sake of the child, he forced a smile. During the long trial period of the lawsuit, Tablo could not receive activities and did not dare to take activities, so his income plummeted, and the family of three could only rely on his wife's income to survive.
At the same time, Tablo's father doubled his stress because of this incident and unfortunately suffered from brain cancer. On the day the court first heard the case, he was found fainting on the side of the road. Since then, Tablo's father has been ill and eventually died.
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On one show, the host asked Tablo if he had ever wondered why it happened to him. He paused, and said slowly that before he would be proud and would show himself bluntly, but now he would not.
Wood shows in the forest, and the wind will destroy it! In order to enter the university head suspension beam and cone thorn stock, Korean students even re-read 5 times before they are admitted to the university. However, tablo, a bad boy who was not expelled from school, as long as he worked hard to get admitted to a world-class famous school, how can he not let the villain have a red eye?
In fact, tablo did nothing wrong, the wrong thing was the "TA really want" members. When jealousy blinds them, they can't wait to catch someone else's loophole and drag them to hell.
Victims do not need to reflect on themselves and find reasons for the perpetrators to persecute themselves. The only thing the average person has to do is aim their guns at the perpetrators and don't give them the opportunity to hurt others again!