College students demand investigation on admission irregularities

By Lee Kyung-min

Recent busted cases of illegal admissions to universities have led the police to expand their investigation on similar crimes.

Students from Yonsei, Korea and Seoul National University demanded an investigation on admission irregularities, as some of their fellow students were obviously not smart enough to be there in their opinion, the Gwanak police said.

This move comes after a slew of recent crackdowns on irregularities of English tests such as TOEIC, TOEFL and TEPS.

Those scores matter to many people to the point that sometimes one point gained is a step closer to the dream job people want, according to the police report.

Various universities, law schools, and companies require such English test scores for evaluation.

On Wednesday, the police arrested a group of law school students and English language instructors on charges of methodical collaboration with tech savvies to earn high scores, and selling it to job applicants, and university applicants.

Among the arrested were a law school student named Park and six others are now under police custody.

They allegedly sent e-mails through Internet cafes of job-seekers and university applicants saying that the scores of their dreams are only one click away.

Some of them actually fell for it, and bought the scores, the police said.

The buyers used micro in-ear device to get the answers the paid test takers were sending, the police found out.

After nationwide report of the case, several university students called for an investigation to sort out the suspicion they long held against their fellow students, the police said.