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[Real Reality]

Scores of applicants were discovered to have entered universities as transfer students by cheating on their English entrance exams through walkie-talkies, police said on Thursday. Chu attracted applicants through the Internet, claiming that he will help them enter high-quality universities in Seoul even if they have no English skills in exchange for 1 to 10 million won per person.

Thirty applicants who took part in the scheme were booked yesterday without physical detention and 50 more are being questioned by police.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200404/kt2004042218073111960.htm

[just because]

Victor Charlie charlie....
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[Toby]

Judging from some of the people you meet who are supposedly doing an English major at university, I am guessing it is a lot more than 30 people.

[Real Reality]

Apparently, similar things are happening with cellular phones in different countries.
In one case last fall, several University of Maryland students admitted to using cellular phones to cheat on an accounting exam by having a friend
text-message the answers to the test. A New Mexico State University professor also failed nine students for using text messaging to cheat on exams in October and November.
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.html?id=1989

Jan Bunten, a math teacher at College Park High in Pleasant Hill, was shocked last year when a student showed her a picture on his cell phone of a test question sent to him by a friend in another class. She also has heard of students taking pictures of tests and posting them on the Internet. "Catching kids cheating is just a nightmare," Bunten said. "It's not nearly as easy as it used to be."

Cell phones -- considered a must-have accessory by chatty teenagers and a security measure by many parents -- are pervasive at middle and high schools, and cameras and text messaging are increasingly common features.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/8076245.htm

Will teachers have to buy a jammer? Will universities need to install jamming equipment?
CELL PHONE JAMMERS FOR ALL WORLDWIDE NETWORKS
http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/cell%20phone%20jammers.htm

[Real Reality]

Immense pressure and brutal competition to get into universities, especially top tier institutions, has led to organized cheating in the entrance exam system designed for students who wish to switch colleges.
According to the police yesterday, an ongoing investigation has found that in 11 colleges' examinations for transfer students, the applicants hired other persons to take exams on their behalf. Police say they believe around 100 students and graduates may have engaged in cheating.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200404/22/200404222339047779900090409041.html

[sadsac]

Surprise! Surprise! Koreans cheating. The shame for them is in getting caught.

[Real Reality]

"We are investigating whether people who hired others to take their tests submitted the test scores when applying for jobs in the private sector or with the government," a police official said.
One English-language testing official said his group may use metal detectors to deter the use of radios.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200404/23/200404232229425879900090409041.html

[Real Reality]

Wireless Transmitters Used in TOEIC Tests
The Cyber Terror Response Center (CTRC), which is investigating illegal admissions into universities, received testimony that there was unlawful usage of wireless transmitters during TOEIC exams and started investigations Friday. Since the TOEIC scores are assigned as supplementary English tests for judicial examinations and other major national exams -- which are important standards for obtaining jobs -- the police see a possibility that illegal scores were used during national exams for employment.

The police official added that, "The TOEFL exams changed to a computer based exam due to widespread cheating in Asian. The TOEIC, however, was open to attack for it is given with all the applicants gathered in one room."
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200404/200404230028.html

[Gollum]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[peemil]

I used to with a Korean chap you "designed" cars for KIA and Hyundai before he decided to become an English teacher... (Without knowing a lot of English) but that is a different story.

He tells me one day. "We used to get all the foreign cars imported when they were made, strip them down and copy the technology. Much easier that way..."

Yep... Copy, copy, copy. That's Koreans.

[Gord]