Two Gwangju Teachers Caught Selling College Entrance Exam Questions to Private Education Companies

False Responses and Tax Evasion

Two current teachers in Gwangju were found to have created and sold mock exam questions for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) to private education companies, receiving money in return.

Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education building.

According to the audit report titled "Status of Teachers' Participation in the Private Education Market," released by the Board of Audit and Inspection the previous day, a total of 249 public and private school teachers nationwide provided questions to private education companies from 2018 to June 2023, earning a combined total of 21.29 billion KRW. Among them, two private school teachers in Gwangju were caught.

Teacher A, from a private school in Gwangju who participated as a CSAT question writer and reviewer, sold mock exam questions to private education companies 26 times over three years starting in 2020, receiving 30 million KRW. Notably, after serving as a CSAT question writer in 2022, A continued to sell questions nine more times through the following year, earning an additional 20 million KRW. It was also discovered that A received these payments in an account under their spouse's name to evade taxes.

The Board of Audit and Inspection found that A falsely answered "no experience writing private mock exams or test prep books in the past three years" in order to participate as a CSAT question writer for the 2022 exam. Teachers dispatched as CSAT question writers are not allowed to have any history of writing commercial test prep books.

Another private school teacher, B, also received 3.7 million KRW through transactions with private education companies and participated as a question writer for the CSAT and mock evaluations.

The Board of Audit and Inspection has notified the relevant provincial and metropolitan offices of education of the audit results, and the Gwangju Office of Education plans to request disciplinary action against these teachers from the respective private school foundation.

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