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South Korea's top scorer in tax accountancy exam admits cheating

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A candidate who came first in South Korea's certified tax accountancy exam has admitted cheating by using a miniature camera, mobile phone and AI tools. Han Won-seok confessed in a video on the YouTube account of his lawyer, Lee Don-Ho, adding that he had confessed to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and offered details on how he cheated. The 34-year-old scored 397.5 out of 400 points in the first round, getting just one of 160 questions wrong, which initially raised suspicions and sparked online speculation. Standardised national tests play an outsized role in career trajectories for South Koreans, making their results - and efforts to unduly inflate those results - of great importance.

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