South Korean Government Accused of Plagiarizing New National Slogan

What an embarrassment for the Park administration if they did in fact plagiarize the new national slogan.  Even if they did not plagiarize it they still should have been aware that a major country like France was already using the slogan:

The Park Geun-hye administration’s newly created national slogan celebrating Korean creativity was plagiarized from a French campaign, an opposition lawmaker and renowned designer said Wednesday.

Rep. Sohn Hye-won of the Minjoo Party of Korea said during the interim leadership meeting in the morning that the government’s “Creative Korea” slogan and its logo design plagiarized the “Creative France” campaign of Business France, a French national agency promoting international investment in the country.

“Using the word ‘creative’ in front of the name of the country in the slogan, and using the red and blue colors in the logo design, are blatant acts of plagiarism,” Sohn said. “It is especially embarrassing that the plagiarized slogan is celebrating creativity.”  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

You can read more at the link, but it is pretty ironic that a slogan pushing creativity was possibly plagiarized.