Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo noted on the 6th, 'The current college entrance exam system has a high potential for fraud and preferential admissions' and said, 'We need to have two college entrance exams a year.'
On the same day, Mayor Hong said on his Facebook, 'The selection based on the college entrance exam only accounts for 18.5%, while the rest is conducted autonomously by each university through hundreds of qualitative assessments. This current exam system is not only unreasonable but also has a significant potential for fraudulent and preferential admissions.'
Mayor Hong stated, 'If there is fraud from the starting point of life, how many young people will despair and resent the world?' He added, 'We need to change the entrance exam system.'
'Furthermore, we need to change the entrance exam system in an objective way that anyone can understand,' Mayor Hong said. 'We should simplify it so that students can take the college entrance exam twice a year and enter college with their best scores.'
'While high schools are being standardized, why is the entrance exam system left unchecked for fraud?' he asked. 'The questions for the college entrance exam should be composed of more than 80% from EBS courses, so that students in remote areas can enter any university just by studying hard with EBS.'
'The current college entrance exam system, where only children from affluent families enter top universities, is nothing more than a system of hereditary privilege,' Mayor Hong said, adding that 'isn't it a clear indication that 13.29% of students entering the 'SKY' (Seoul National University, Korea University, Yonsei University) in 2024 are from the three affluent districts of Gangnam?'
'Is it normal to receive a minister's commendation through connections and to forge intern certificates that were never obtained to get into college?' he asked. 'We must fairly innovate the current entrance exam system, which is unfair from the start.'