Music faculty entrance examination corruption uncovered…Professor personally offers unlawful tuition by ‘grasp class’

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Data on discussions between examiners and professors relating to tuition charges. Supplied by the Anti-Corruption Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Company

The complete story of the music faculty admissions corruption case involving a number of college professors and admissions brokers has been revealed. The police are investigating college professors, brokers, dad and mom, and so on. who’ve dedicated corruption in admissions, equivalent to offering unlawful tuition price 700,000 gained at one time and permitting the check required to be admitted to high universities equivalent to Kyung Hee College, Seoul. Nationwide College, and Sookmyung Girls’s College by giving them excessive scores on sensible assessments 17 folks have been caught and handed over to the prosecutors.

The Anti-Corruption Investigation Unit of the Metropolitan Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Company is investigating 14 college professors who gave unlawful vocal music classes at an undisclosed coaching heart and took part as judges for faculty entrance sensible exams to move the scholars who obtained the schooling. , an entrance examination dealer who ran an undisclosed coaching heart, and gave the professor luxurious encyclopedias and cash It was introduced on the tenth that 17 folks, together with the 2 dad and mom who gave the t -money, despatched to the prosecution on the fifth ahead. allegations of violating the academy regulation, obstructing enterprise, and violating the Anti-Graft Act. Amongst them, one present college professor was arrested and despatched.

Entrance examination dealer A ran an ‘unlawful high-cost tuition heart’ in Seoul’s Gangnam-gu and Seocho-gu districts from January 2021 to February final yr. We organized ‘one-on-one tutoring’ by connecting present college professors with center and highschool college students and check takers. This lesson, referred to as a ‘grasp class’, lasted about 30 to 60 minutes per session. Tuition charges of as much as 700,000 gained per session. All vocal bills, professor lesson charges, and apply room rental charges have been paid by the experimenter. A complete of 679 classes got to 30 experimenters, and 13 folks, together with college professors, have been discovered to have obtained roughly 130 million gained in tuition charges. One professor didn’t present tuition however solely obtained cash.

Plainly the explanation why Mr. A was operating an unlawful coaching heart is as a result of if the coaching heart is reported and lessons are held, the schooling payment is restricted to as much as 50,000 gained per hour. In keeping with the regulation on the institution and operation of personal academies and extracurricular tuition, it’s also unlawful for present academics, equivalent to college professors, to offer extracurricular tuition. It was discovered that the professors accepted Mr. A’s suggestion and taught the category though they knew it was an unlawful lesson outdoors the college.

Police imagine that the apply of sustaining shut relationships with professors in arts and bodily schooling fields, equivalent to vocal music, to organize for one’s profession after getting into faculty facilitated the operation. flat unlawful coaching facilities. After saying college admissions, Professor Han chosen check takers who had obtained unlawful classes as his college students by an ‘unofficial scholar check’ and in addition obtained cash and valuables from Mr. A. A police officer stated, “Maybe as a result of they have been apprehensive in regards to the penalties associated to the status of the professor, the scholars who have been investigated as references weren’t lively in making statements relating to allegations the professor. “

The operation of unlawful tuition facilities led to corruption in entrance examinations. When the doorway examination was close to, Mr. A tried to curry favor by telling the professors of the schools to which examinees have been making use of and the order wherein the examinees would take the sensible check. Professor B, who was arrested, is accused of giving intensive tuition to 2 examinees till the day of the doorway examination, and receiving cash and luxurious purses from their dad and mom after they handed (violation of the Anti-Graft Act). The dad or mum who donated the cash was additionally despatched to court docket for breaching the Anti-Graft Act.

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Sensible examination analysis desk with invited professors as judges. The 2 highlighted containers signify the requested professor’s scores. Supplied by the Anti-Corruption Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Company

5 professors are accused of obstructing the conventional operation of the faculty entrance examination course of (obstruction of enterprise) by colluding with Mr. A to behave as judges for sensible examinations at 4 universities and giving excessive scores to educated experimenters. Some universities performed sensible assessments in a blind vogue, however professors might distinguish check takers based mostly on their voice, voice, and music beforehand. Earlier than the screening, professors wrote guarantees equivalent to ‘There aren’t any particular folks equivalent to acquaintances among the many check takers’ and ‘There isn’t any instructing historical past’ and so they submitted them to the college.

The police introduced that they didn’t detain the scholars who have been confirmed to have handed the sensible faculty entrance examination by a search, however ended up notifying the schools in regards to the names. A police officer stated, “This incident reveals the structural issues within the entrance examination of artwork and bodily schooling and the connection between professors and scholar academics instructing.”