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Learning English through hacking. By Lee Chang-sup TOEIC is Theft of English for Internal Commercialization to publishers and language institutes.

Learning English through hacking

TOEIC is Trophy of English for International Competition to 2 million Korean test-takers. When prosecutors indicted five staff from the Hackers Education Group last week for violating copyrights, it argued it has become a scapegoat. The other competitors allegedly mobilized employees, hired students, and utilized audio recorders, and cameras hidden in pens to smuggle out test questions. Hackers deployed about 50 employees for each test, and came away with test kits by using hi-tech equipment from 2007 to 2011.

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ROBOTrolls : SKorea. North Korea says it will admit delegations from South. A South Korean soldier at an observation post in Panmunjom looks at North Korea on Thursday.

North Korea says it will admit delegations from South

Pyongyang says it will guarantee the safety of South Koreans traveling to the NorthSeoul has said it will allow a limited number of private groups to send delegations to the NorthSouth Korea has broken somewhat from its hardline stance since Kim Jong Il's deathSeoul has expressed its sympathy to the North Korean people (CNN) -- North Korea will admit delegations from the South that wish to visit Pyongyang to express their condolences following the death of the leader Kim Jong Il, according to a statement posted on a government website run by the North.

"We will guarantee all convenience and safety of the South Koreans during their visit," said the statement on uriminzokkiri.com, dated Thursday, adding that the North would open to the delegations "all air routes and land routes through Kaesong," its industrial park, some 45 kilometers (27 miles) north of Seoul.