Newshot Top Scorer in South Korea's Tax Accountant Exam Confesses to Cheating With Miniature Camera and AI
IT之家 November 15 news — according to a report today by the Korean media outlet Etnews, the top scorer in South Korea's 2026 tax accountant qualification exam has admitted that he used a miniature camera and generative artificial intelligence to cheat.
According to reports, the first-place candidate in the 63rd tax accountant exam, A 某, recently admitted his cheating in an interview with a lawyer.
Mr. A stated that during the exam he used a miniature camera to photograph the exam questions and then sent the photos to an AI to look up the answers. He claims he cheated in both the first and second rounds of the exam held in April and July of this year.
A 某 said on the program: "I have written everything I did into a confession letter and submitted it to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency. I will also submit the remaining materials and devices to the investigating authorities as evidence, exactly as they are."
IT之家 learned from the original report that A 某 had previously made his exam scores public. In the first round of the exam, which uses multiple-choice questions, he answered only 1 out of 160 questions incorrectly. He scored 97.5 in the finance subject, and received a perfect 100 in the introduction to tax law, introduction to accounting, and commercial law subjects. Because the scores were unusually high, some netizens later suspected whether he had used AI devices to cheat.
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