The South Korean fuzz just busted a massive cheating ring, catching 141 college-bound kids cribbing answers from SMS. The government has responded by vowing to outfit every testing center with cellphone jammers, of the sort pictured to the right. Sure, it’ll cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $66 million. And the dollars-to-donuts bet is that some enterprising hustler will simply jam the jammers. But it’s a lot cleaner than conducting full body searches on every test taker, which seems to be the only other proposal on the table.
I’d say the most surprising thing about this story is the fact the kids got arrested for cheating. I bet the American prison-industrial complex would positively wet itself with glee if cheating equaled jail time over here.
Authorities seek to thwart exam cheating [The Korea Herald]
