One of Korea's rising art-world stars has been revealed to be a charlatan. Recently tapped to be the co-curator for the 2008 Gwangju Biennale, Shin Jeong-ah, 35, curator of the prestigious Sungkok Art Museum and the youngest professor at Dongguk University, claimed to hold degrees from Yale and University of Kansas. The University of Kansas said that Shin, known as "Cinderella" in art circles, had attended classes there, but did not graduate with a degree, while officials from Yale refuted Shin's claim that she had received a doctorate in art history from the institution. In addition, the dissertation she submitted to Dongguk was heavily plagiarized. Shin has said that she will take legal action in her defense, but many expect that her career is over.