Overview
- Korea University nullified a large online midterm after students shared screenshots and answers in KakaoTalk open chat rooms, with officials confirming multiple rooms were used.
- The invalidated exam was for a general education course enrolling about 1,400 students, and the university says it is disciplining those involved and reassessing procedures for the final.
- At Yonsei University, a third-year online midterm for a Natural Language Processing and ChatGPT course saw students bypass monitoring by adjusting camera angles and feeding screenshots into ChatGPT, detected through a post-exam video audit.
- Yonsei says around 40 students have admitted cheating and about 10 more are suspected but have not come forward, and the professor warned non-reporters could face suspension under school rules.
- A student-run online poll suggested broader misconduct, and the cases have renewed focus on policy gaps as 77.1 percent of universities lack formal AI rules, with experts urging frameworks that allow AI use with citation and reasoning and assessments that evaluate process over final answers.