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By on January 23rd, 2010 at 4:03 pm

Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Investigated for Corruption

It will be interesting to see if this expands into a wider corruption probe or not?:

A full-scale police corruption investigation is about to commence at the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education after a drunken bar fight last month had an unexpected twist.

On Dec. 3, a man identified only as Im and a woman identified as Goh, were dragged into the Nowon Police Precinct in Seoul. Both 50 years old, the two had been drinking with their colleagues at a nearby bar when a fight between the two broke out.

During the fight, Goh clobbered Im’s head with her high heels. After searching for identification, the police found that the two were both school commissioners at the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education. Even while at the police station, the two continued their argument. In the heat of the moment, Goh reportedly blurted out, “This person [Im] took 20 million won ($17,452) from me saying that he would help me pass the exam to become school commissioner.”

Upon this spontaneous revelation, police started investigating further. Police say Goh confessed that in early 2008 when she was working as a teacher at a middle school in Seoul, Im requested money, promising that he would help her get high scores for the second stage of the school commissioner exam. She handed him 20 million won a few months later, she said.  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

Read the rest, but it is likely that this corruption expands much further than just with the Mr. Im in this article.

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  • Teadrinker
    9:36 am on January 23rd, 2010 1

    It runs deeper than that.

    I know of two teachers who were asked to pay bribes at high schools and universities to secure their employment (one quit his job in disgust and the other took a position at the first school which made him an offer with no strings attached).

  • kushibo
    11:20 am on January 23rd, 2010 2

    I'm having trouble following this story. Are they both NSETs?

  • Archie B
    5:01 pm on January 23rd, 2010 3

    Foreign teachers or Koreans?

  • Teadrinker
    6:14 pm on January 24th, 2010 4

    Korean.

 

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