Test Security in Korea 1: The Teacher, Printer, Uncle and Hagwon Head
Today’s Joongang Daily carries an interesting account of the leakage of copies of a simulated version of the college admission test, just days before the test. According to the police, a leak earlier this year involved school teachers, several other hagwon and printers who made copies of test sheets, police said yesterday.
After wrapping up its investigation, the Seoul Metropolitan Police applied for arrest warrants for the head of a cram school (hagwon) and a high school teacher. According to the Joongang Daily, “The leak shows how poorly test sheets are managed by education offices across the country,” a police official said. “The hagwon world doesn’t regard such leaks as anything newsworthy. They think of it as a practice that’s been around a long time.”
According to police, Choi handed over test sheets for a simulated college entrance to an official surnamed Yu from an online hagwon, Megastudy, on more than 20 occasions between March 2005 to June 2007.