Konkuk University Voids an Online Midterm Over AI Cheating Claims; 600 Students Retake It in Person on Dec. 14
A midterm for an online liberal-arts course at Konkuk University in Seoul is being thrown out after allegations that students used generative AI to cheat. The roughly 600 students enrolled will retake it in person on Dec. 14, the day of the final exam.
Live proctoring did not stop it
The exam was held on Oct. 19 over a video-conferencing program, with live supervision and recording. It is a large online course related to the Korean language, with about 600 students.
According to Kyunghyang Shinmun, signs of generative AI use emerged as the results were analysed and student tips came in.
A '99 points' post lit the fuse
It started when a student posted in the university's online community that they had scored 99 using AI. Segye Ilbo reports the poster wrote that they captured the questions, fed them to an AI program and wrote answers from what it relayed by voice.
The post has not been confirmed as true, and the school says no individual has been identified.
The professor's call: everyone retakes
In a notice, the professor said the exam's fairness and discriminating power could not be sufficiently secured because of AI use and other cheating by some students, and announced a retest.
It will be held in person on Dec. 14 together with the final. A university official said the school will act under its rules if specific misconduct is confirmed or the people involved are identified.
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2026-10-24T00:21:28.852Z
Hankook Ilbo on the Konkuk AI cheating allegation and the retest for 600 students (Oct. 23) ↗Kyunghyang Shinmun on the Konkuk midterm AI cheating allegation (Oct. 23) ↗Segye Ilbo on the '99 points with AI' post and the in-person retest (Oct. 23) ↗Wikimedia Commons, Ilgam Lake in autumn ↗Wikimedia Commons, Seoul Campus ↗Photo credit
Konkukeditor (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA 4.0Ilgam Lake and Konkuk University's Seoul campus in autumn (taken 2013; a general place photo, unrelated to the exam). Photo by Konkukeditor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Konkukeditor (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA 4.0Konkuk University's Seoul campus beside Ilgam Lake (taken 2012; a general place photo, unrelated to the exam). Photo by Konkukeditor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons