Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

Half a million students breathe free as life-defining test day ends

Thursday marked the defining moment for hundreds of thousands of takers of the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) in Korea.

2023-11-16

Test-takers to sit for mostly Covid restriction-free CSAT

With the country declaring an end to Covid-19 and relaxing related restrictions, all test-takers can sit for the upcoming suneung, or Korea’s College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), in the same classroom this year.

2023-11-07

Ten days 'til suneung

Messages rooting for students taking the suneung exams, or Korea’s College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), are clipped to a board at Maecheon High School in Daegu, 10 days before the exam.

2023-11-06

Covid peak is over, says gov't, as rules to be relaxed

Health authorities will announce a post-Covid return to normalcy on Friday. “We believe the [Omicron] wave has completely passed its peak,” said Ko Jae-young, spokesperson of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA)...

2022-04-14

Online exams lead to mass cheating of med students

A group of 91 medical students at Inha University is facing disciplinary action for organized cheating on exams held online amid the coronavirus pandemic.

2020-06-02