SAT Probe by Police Widens
Some days ago the press reported a scandal in which a Korean language institute instructor was arrested by police after providing copies of an SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) test taken in Bangkok, Thailand, via e-mail to Korean students who were to take the same test hours later in the United States. Now The Korea Times is reporting that four more Koreans have been apprehended for attempting to leak SAT information. Reportedly, police are widening their investigation, in cooperation with the U.S.-based Educational Testing Service, the administrator of the SAT, to check whether the four in question had previously leaked papers to “clients” at home and abroad utilizing time zone differences.
According to the Suseo police department in southern Seoul, the four –including a 36 year old SAT preparation instructor–were suspected of leaking exam sheets they obtained from a high school in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, where the SAT test was administered last Saturday.
The SAT scandal is a lead item on Korean television news these days and is in all the newspapers. For further detail, you may wish to read the Joongang Daily’s account of the latest developments.