Controversy over the difficulty of the Suneung, South Korea’s college entrance exam, is likely to persist as this year’s exam has so far not seen a perfect score in tentative grading, giving an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students wait for the start of the annual college entrance examinations at an exam hall on ...

The Ministry of Education on Wednesday announced measures to overhaul the way the College Scholastic Aptitude Test, known locally as Suneung, is put together, f ...

Suneung, an eight-hour long, highly challenging exam, plays a critical role in determining university admissions, job prospects, and even future relationships in South Korea. This year, over half a ...

At 8:40 am on a cold Thursday morning, South Korea held its breath. Sirens cleared traffic from the streets. Latecomers were escorted to exam halls in police cars. Flights froze mid-air. Across the ...

Han Dong-hyun, a student at Seoul Hanbit School for the Blind, is among those who will take the "longest version" of the infamous Suneung exam Every November, South Korea comes to a standstill for its ...

South Korea's Suneung Exam: Test takers wait for the test to start at Dongwon Dongwoo High School. South Korea's notoriously demanding college entrance exam, the Suneung, has triggered a worldwide ...

The details about the hullabaloo are almost boring in their predictable uniformity: a politician's statement, the outraged response, the government's hasty clarifications, meetings, more statements.

Imagine this: You’re a South Korean teenager taking a notoriously grueling 8-hour college entrance exam. You’ve been prepping for this for months, perhaps years. You reach the English portion, and you ...