Korean Pop Star Battles Attacks On Stanford Record

Daniel Seon Woong Lee, better known in Korea as recording artist Tablo, graduated from Stanford with a seemingly uncontroversial record: two English degrees, a bachelor's in 2001 and a master's in 2002. But over the past six months, an Internet campaign has launched attacking Lee's credentials and, he says, threatening him and his family.

Lee, the frontman of premier Korean rap group Epik High, became aware of the allegations that he was not a Stanford graduate in March, when he began receiving threats to his Twitter account. The sources of the attacks were netizens--vocal participants in an online community--who question the validity of Lee's Stanford degrees. An intervention from Stanford Registrar Tom Black and a letter from English professor Tobias Wolff did little to help stop the movement.

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