They have one of their grad students translate and often get a 2nd pass from editors. Also, like 75% of professors with a staff, their students/interns/assistants write 80% of it while they write 20%. It's their research and project but the boring stuff they leave to those paying their dues. Some do write the whole thing.This isn't as bad as it sounds. They're getting valuable experience and will get support from their researcher/prof in finding jobs.
I doubt they can do that while studying in the US or the UK for their PhD. Getting students to do his research got a former president of Korea University ousted and has cost others as well.
In uni, I did a fair amount of gruntwork for prof research papers.I spent about 40 hours going through water sample slides IDing and counting diatoms.I also spent a few days on a dinghy counting auks, gulls, and various other waterfowl on their island colonies in the northern part of the Straight of Georgia.The work was boring as all heck, but it was pretty exhilarating to be doing actual primary research. I even got my name (in very fine print) on the seagull article along with all the rest of the class who participated in it.
The Korean professors weren't giving the students any credit, which I think is what got them into hot water.
Yeah, that's pretty shady.If you rope somebody in to help out, you better give them some kind of credit.On a tangent, what are ethics involved in giving recompense rather than credit?
No, I mean *compensation*. Not something we already paid for lol.No, I kid. I basically bought my degree with my amazing ability to look through a microscope/binoculars and count things for hours on end.
