Yu Wei "It's the fault of unexpected OS upgrade bugs that don't work from time to time... I feel full of responsibility."

Apology to students and parents... “Failure that hasn’t happened in 10 years… no load test after upgrade”

Battle over log submission… Ministry of Education "Need to supplement submitted data"

(Sejong = Yonhap News) Reporter Ko Sang-min = CEO Seong Yun-seok of Uway Apply, a college application reception agency, repeatedly bowed his head to test-takers and parents across the country, saying, "The unexpected OS (operating system) upgrade bug was the cause of the 'rolling failure' situation that occurred last month."

Representative Seong appeared as a witness at the National Assembly Education Committee audit on the 12th and said, "The OS upgrade bug damaged the stability of the server. I fully feel responsibility."

He said, "There hasn't been a disability like this in the past 10 years. This is the first time it's happened," but he added, "As a person involved, I have nothing to say about this disability."

He continued, “As of now, we are doing our best to resolve the (incident),” and added, “We will ensure that on-time application reception is stable and fair.”

In response to the criticism that the application log data was not sufficiently submitted to the Ministry of Education, Representative Seong explained, "What was not submitted is the entire log situation. It contains personal information of test takers and the data is too large," adding, "Also, due to the contract, it cannot be arbitrarily submitted without the consent of the university."

He emphasized, “All logs related to this accident have been submitted.”

In response to this, Seol Se-hoon, head of the Ministry of Education's keynote office, said, "The responsible authorities say that the entire log record is not necessary," but "They say that the data submitted by Uway Apply is still a little insufficient and needs further supplementation."

When asked whether a load test was conducted after the OS upgrade, CEO Seong said, "We did not conduct a test. The load test was to determine server capacity," and added, "A load test for the entire system is scheduled for the 15th."

He said, "In 2013, the government was pushing to make application reception public, but gave up due to concerns about a gap in application reception that year. Isn't this an attempt by the private sector (agency) to protect its own interests by holding students hostage?" He emphasized, "I have given priority to the public interest as I have been handling application reception in the private sector for 27 years," and added, "I have never held test-takers hostage before providing a service."

He added, “The sales from application receipt is about 8.2 billion won per year, and we have invested an average of 1 billion won per year to contribute to stability.” He added, “In fact, this was a private sector, and there was never any scrutiny from the government or public sectors.”

In addition, regarding legal responsibility related to this incident, Representative Seong said, “We will actively consider legal responsibility depending on the results of the measures taken.”