The teacher, printer, uncle and hagwon head
Published: 02 Sep. 2009, 02:51
It wasn’t just the owner of a hagwon, a private education institute, who received test sheets for a simulated college entrance exam days before the actual test from an uncle, an EBS-affiliated producer.
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.
Wrapping up an investigation, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency has applied for arrest warrants for a cram school head surnamed Kim and a high school teacher surnamed Choi. Police booked the EBS producer, surnamed Yoon, without detention.
Sixteen other people in the education industry have also been booked.
“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.
The EBS producer, Yoon, allegedly handed the test sheets to hagwon owner Kim, his nephew. Kim created video lectures based on some of the items on the sheets ahead of the simulated college entrance test on Mar. 11, 2009. Other online education institutions created video lectures on the entrance exam questions, but didn’t distribute them to their enrolled students, police added.
Police found that the head of a printing company leaked test copies on 16 occasions to several hagwon, one of which his brother has owned since 2005.
Police also reported the company pocketed 62 million won ($28,169) selling extra copies to 10 hagwon between October 2004 and October 2005.
By Jang Joo-young, Kim Mi-ju [[email protected]]
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.
Wrapping up an investigation, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency has applied for arrest warrants for a cram school head surnamed Kim and a high school teacher surnamed Choi. Police booked the EBS producer, surnamed Yoon, without detention.
Sixteen other people in the education industry have also been booked.
“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.
The EBS producer, Yoon, allegedly handed the test sheets to hagwon owner Kim, his nephew. Kim created video lectures based on some of the items on the sheets ahead of the simulated college entrance test on Mar. 11, 2009. Other online education institutions created video lectures on the entrance exam questions, but didn’t distribute them to their enrolled students, police added.
Police found that the head of a printing company leaked test copies on 16 occasions to several hagwon, one of which his brother has owned since 2005.
Police also reported the company pocketed 62 million won ($28,169) selling extra copies to 10 hagwon between October 2004 and October 2005.
By Jang Joo-young, Kim Mi-ju [[email protected]]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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