Hackers boss led double life as an English professor

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http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2951166

By Ha Sun-young, Sarah Kim
Korea JoongAng Daily
April 09, 2012

David Cho is the founder of the Gangnam-based Hackers Education Group, a 
hagwon or cram school that students flock to for its supreme ability to 
predict the kind of questions that will turn up on standardized exams.

Cho and Hackers hit the headlines in February when prosecutors started 
uncovering how the company’s employees took the standardized exams and 
snuck the questions out, sometimes going to James Bond-esque lengths to 
do so.

Now Cho is being accused of leading a double life and breaking the law. 
As David Cho, he ran Hackers and wrote the company’s teaching material 
for the Toeic (Test of English for International Communication) exam.

But under the name Cho Dong-in, he was simultaneously working as an 
English professor at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, which is 
an infraction of the law, according to Seoul Central District 
prosecutors. According to Korean law, civil servants are prohibited from 
running a for-profit business on the side.

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