Teacher accused of leaking test questions to private tutor

By Park Si-soo

A high school teacher colluded with a private institute’s teacher to leak questions in the school’s English test, police said Sunday.

Police said the teacher, 61, surnamed Hwang, was suspected of leaking 27 out of 30 questions of an English mid-term exam of a foreign language high school in Seoul. The tutor, 32, surnamed Cho, was arrested for alleged collusion.

Police are investigating whether the teacher received anything in return from the tutor. They are also investigating if there were other leaks involving the two.

Police began the investigation early last month after learning about an online controversy over the institute’s “exorbitantly accurate prediction” of questions in the school’s English test.

On Nov. 10 the school formally apologized to its students and parents over the leak.