Former TOEIC Instructor Transmits Answers... 19 Charged Without Detention for TOEIC and TEPS Cheating

Receive '1.5 million to 5 million KRW' per session

The prosecution has indicted a former TOEIC instructor and clients who were caught secretly passing answers they wrote themselves in exam halls for TOEIC and TEPS without detention.

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On the 26th, the Criminal Division 3 of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Hee-young) announced that they had indicted a total of 19 people, including former TOEIC instructor A and clients, without detention on charges of obstruction of business and others.

A previously worked as an instructor at a well-known language institute and recruited clients who intended to take fraudulent exams to raise gambling funds. Using a mobile phone hidden in the exam hall restroom, A passed the answers he wrote himself to the clients, committing fraudulent acts, and received between 1.5 million and 5 million won per session as payment.

A prosecution official stated, “Considering the serious damage to the fairness of representative official language tests, not only the main perpetrator but also all clients who requested fraudulent exams were indicted without detention,” and added, “We will do our best in the prosecution to ensure that sentences commensurate with the defendants’ crimes are imposed.”

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