http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2951166
By Ha Sun-young, Sarah Kim
Korea JoongAng Daily
April 09, 2012
David Cho is the founder of the Gangnam-based Hackers Education Group, a
hagwon or cram school that students flock to for its supreme ability to
predict the kind of questions that will turn up on standardized exams.
Cho and Hackers hit the headlines in February when prosecutors started
uncovering how the company’s employees took the standardized exams and
snuck the questions out, sometimes going to James Bond-esque lengths to
do so.
Now Cho is being accused of leading a double life and breaking the law.
As David Cho, he ran Hackers and wrote the company’s teaching material
for the Toeic (Test of English for International Communication) exam.
But under the name Cho Dong-in, he was simultaneously working as an
English professor at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, which is
an infraction of the law, according to Seoul Central District
prosecutors. According to Korean law, civil servants are prohibited from
running a for-profit business on the side.
[...]
_______________________________________________
LayerOne Security Conference
May 26-27, Clarion Hotel, Anaheim, CA
http://www.layerone.org
