Original article in Korean is
at this link. No mention of
anyone at the schools being charged, but it’s hard to believe they were
unaware.
47 parents are being charged,
including one being detained in jail, on charges related to international
school admissions.
In a briefing on the 6th the
Incheon District Public Prosecutor’s Office announced the indictments of 46
people and the arrest of 36-year old Mrs. Gwon on charges of forgery for
sending their children to foreigner’s schools by producing fake admission
documents.
Most of them are from the upper
class, with four chaebol relatives, four are representatives or execcutives at
financial firms, 21 are business executives, and seven are doctors.
Mrs. Gwon allegedly hired a
broker in 2009 to create false passports for Bulgaria and the United Kingdom,
then used them to gain her daughter admission to a foreigner’s school in Seoul.
Mrs. Gwon, the daghter-in-law of
well-known businessman in the Chungcheong region, also allegedly had a fake Guatamalan
passport produced to get her daughter into another foreigner’s school in Seoul.
Mrs. Gwon paid 100 million won for the passports, investigators found.
Another parent who was indicted
allegedly paid a broker 50 million to 100 million won to forge necessary
admissions documents to gain her children admission to a foreigner’s school.
Many of the parents stayed in
Guatamala and other Central American nations for two or three days, where they
used brokers to forge citizenship papers. They gained their children’s school
admissions by reporting tthat they had obtained passports from those countries
through local passport authorities and changed their citizenship.
Some of the parents received from
their brokers passports of African nations which they never even visited and
which don’t have official residences in Korea, then sent copies of the
passports to the schools without reporting a change of citizenship, thus
gaining their children admission.
Foreigner’s schools require that
one of a student’s parents be a foreigner. If both parents are non-foreigners
then they have a 30% chance of admission after staying abroad for three years.
Prosecutors uncovered 56 cases of
fraudulent admission at nine such schools through this investigation.
Prosecutors plan to send the list of names of fraudulent admittees to the
Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, and to provincial and local
offices of education.
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