Request for Proxy Attendance as Bank of Korea and Financial Supervisory Service Exams Overlap
Non-Detention Indictment on Charges of Obstruction of Business and Forgery of Official Documents
A twin brother who took the Financial Supervisory Service recruitment exam on behalf of his younger brother has been brought to trial.
On the 27th, Yonhap News reported that the Criminal Division 1 of the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors' Office Namyangju Branch (Chief Prosecutor Yoo Jeong-hyun) has indicted the twin brothers without detention on charges of obstruction of business and forgery of official documents. The twin older brother, Mr. A (35), is accused of taking the Financial Supervisory Service's first written exam in September 2022 using his younger brother Mr. B's resident registration card as a proxy.
At that time, Mr. B had applied simultaneously for positions at the Bank of Korea and the Financial Supervisory Service, but the dates of the first written exams for both institutions overlapped. Because of this, he asked his twin brother, who looks similar, to take the exam on his behalf. Eventually, after passing the first written exams of both institutions, Mr. B concealed the fact that his brother had taken the exam for him and personally took the Financial Supervisory Service's second written exam and first interview, ultimately passing. However, after passing the Bank of Korea exam, Mr. B gave up the Financial Supervisory Service's second interview.
This issue became controversial after it was posted last year on the anonymous workplace app "Blind." When suspicions of proxy exam-taking by Mr. B arose, the Bank of Korea launched an audit, identified the matter, and reported the twin brothers to investigative authorities. A prosecutor stated, "We will continue to respond strictly to crimes that undermine social fairness, such as entrance exam and recruitment corruption."
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