{"id":131557,"date":"2026-08-25T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/131557\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:18:18","slug":"ai-smart-glasses-force-south-korea-to-rewrite-its-exam-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/131557\/","title":{"rendered":"AI smart glasses force South Korea to rewrite its exam rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/south-korea?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Korea<\/a> is preparing to overhaul the rules governing technical qualification exams after five candidates were caught using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat in just over two months.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The five cases, reported between May and June, were disclosed in data submitted to the Human Resources Development Service of Korea by opposition politician Kim So-hee, according to a report by The Korea Herald on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In two of the cases \u2013 in Gwangju and Daegu \u2013 the candidates were caught because examiners spotted a light or electronic sound emitting from their glasses. In another incident in Mokpo, a candidate was seen pressing a button on a pair of glasses, causing a blue display to appear on the lens.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In Seoul, a camera lens was found embedded in the frame of glasses worn by a candidate taking an information processing engineer exam, while in Ulsan, a check showed a lens and display on the glasses worn by another candidate.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">All five were penalised for cheating, and three of them were referred to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In June, the incident involving the candidate in Gwangju became the country\u2019s first criminal case, according to the Korea JoongAng Daily. The man in his forties was charged with violating the National Technical Qualification Act. An examiner noticed light reflecting from the lenses of his glasses during the fire protection facilities engineer certification exam.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitors test smart glasses at an artificial intelligence industry event in Nanjing. Photo: CFOTO\/Future Publishing\/Getty Images\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ddc8c9ce-a904-4c59-aade-3b22b788845c_f60200c9.jpg\" title=\"Visitors test smart glasses at an artificial intelligence industry event in Nanjing. Photo: CFOTO\/Future Publishing\/Getty Images\"\/>Visitors test smart glasses at an artificial intelligence industry event in Nanjing. Photo: CFOTO\/Future Publishing\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea is preparing to overhaul the rules governing technical qualification exams after five candidates were caught using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67080,31,11591,33],"class_list":["post-131557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-cheating","tag-korea","tag-smart-glasses","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}