South Korea’s top-scoring tax-accountant candidate admitted using artificial intelligence to cheat in both exam stages, as officials prepare security checks for the Nov. 19 college entrance test.
In a video posted on his lawyer’s YouTube channel, the candidate said he used a miniature camera and smartphone to get answers from an AI system during both stages. He also said he cheated in the first stage of a separate certified public accountant exam.
The candidate scored 397.5 out of 400 in the April stage, answering 159 of 160 questions correctly, then 663 out of 800 in the July stage, Yonhap News Agency reported. Those results made him the exam’s top scorer.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it received a written confession through the candidate’s lawyer and assigned the case to investigators. The Ministry of Economy and Finance said it planned to seek a provisional suspension of his tax accountant certificate through the Tax Accountant Qualification Deliberation Committee under the National Tax Service.
South Korea’s College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), known as Suneung, is scheduled for Nov. 19. The Ministry of Education said in an Oct. 20 announcement that it expects 551,864 people to take the exam at 1,312 test centers.
The ministry’s Oct. 29 plan calls for one designated inspector at each center to watch for suspicious eyewear and a rapid-response network with local education offices to handle suspected cheating. It also said it would seek criminal prosecution for AI-glasses cheating and pursue a proposal to extend the period cheaters are barred from the CSAT from one year to three.
EconoTimes previously covered the ministry’s planned criminal complaints and longer CSAT ban. The CSAT is scheduled for Nov. 19.
