Go Min-jeong, "Secretary-General of the Korea University Education Association was on an overseas business trip when the 'regular admissions did not work'"

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ahn Jung-hoon = On the day when the application system for the 2027 college admissions rolling admission system malfunction occurred, the secretary-general of the Korea Council for University Education (Korea University Education Association), which is in charge of university admissions, was on a business trip overseas, said Go Min-jeong, a member of the National Assembly's Education Committee and a member of the Democratic Party of Korea.

Rep. Go said this based on data submitted by the Korean Council for Education.

According to the data, the secretary-general of the Korean Council went on an overseas business trip to the UK for six days from September 7th to 12th.

Applications for this year's college admissions were accepted from September 7th to 11th. It overlapped with the Secretary General's overseas business trip schedule and the rolling application submission period.

In particular, on the 11th, the last day of application, there was an error in the application system of Uway Apply, one of the two application acceptance agencies, which prevented some test takers from completing application submission and payment properly.

The Korea University Association explained that the Secretary-General went on a business trip to attend the '2026 European Association of International Educators (EAIE) Conference', an international education fair.

On this business trip, the Korean Council spent a total of 11.73 million won.

Rep. Ko emphasized, "It was not appropriate for the person in charge of the university affairs association to be away for a long period of time on an overseas business trip during the college admission application period," and added, "We will thoroughly examine how they responded when a problem occurred and hold them accountable."