Today's JoongAng Daily reported that corruption was detected in all 16 education offices. The bright side of this is that:
In the past, the results of this survey have not been announced publicly. However, Grand National Party lawmaker Kwon Young-jin, also a member of the Education, Science and Technology Committee of the National Assembly, received the results in a report on Thursday.I guess the fact that it was reported publicly makes it all better. The sarcasm probably isn't entirely warranted; the most important anti-corruption measure a country can make is transparency. However, admitting that something is corrupt doesn't actually do anything to change it though presumably there will be increased public pressure to resolve the issue. I had trouble imagining exactly what sort of bribes there were though apparently:
“We see that most of the people who gave money or gifts to civil servants have related businesses [to the education sector] including school meal manufacturers, school facilities companies among others,” said a high-level official at ACRC.I wonder if the reason the new 4th grade English textbook didn't have an accompanying teacher's manual in English had something to do with this. Probably just regular bureaucratic incompetence
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