In the first decade of the new millennium, Hacker's Education Group experienced phenomenal growth and became a big player in the private TOEFL test preparation industry in South Korea. In an earlier post, I noted the indictment of Hacker's Education Group for illegally obtaining TOEIC questions. Today the Korea Joongang Daily carried an article reporting that the founder of Hacker's Education Group, David Cho, was also an English professor at Chungnam National University, under his Korean name.
English testing and test preparation in South Korea are big business. About that there is no question. It seems the question that needs to be addressed is how to protect the integrity and confidentiality of high-stakes academic testing so that the institutions around the world who use test scores can have a degree of confidence in the results.
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