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By on March 27th, 2010 at 4:00 pm

Cheating English Teacher Sent to Jail In Korea

Everyone remember the English teacher that enriched himself on a SAT cheating scam?  Well he will now have plenty of time to think of new scams as he spends the next eight months in a Korean prison:

A Seoul court sentenced a teacher from a private tutoring center to eight months in prison yesterday after finding him guilty of leaking questions from the SAT, a test that helps determine college admissions in the United States.

The Seoul Central District Court said in a verdict that the 36-year-old instructor, identified by his surname Jang, “deliberately planned” the crime for the sake of his reputation and financial benefit.

Jang, a popular lecturer in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam district, confessed to prosecutors that he leaked exam sheets from the Scholastic Aptitude Test to use them in his classes, for which students paid high tuition in hopes of getting good SAT scores.

The court also ordered three others to pay 3 million won ($2,625) in fines each for colluding with Jang.

“His crime seriously interfered with the test taken around the world and greatly damaged the credibility of the test administration among students and the public,” the Seoul Central District Court said in the ruling.  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

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  • Teadrinker
    9:07 am on March 27th, 2010 1

    Whatever happened to the kids who cheated on the SATs? Did they get kicked out of the schools they are attending?

 

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