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Rules, calendars and statistics are written only after checking the original document from the body that issued it. Our main sources are the Ministry of Education, the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE), the Korean Council for University Education, metropolitan and provincial offices of education, the Ministry of Personnel Management, individual local governments and the Korea Student Aid Foundation. We do not carry figures across on the strength of another outlet's reporting alone.
Admissions and recruitment rules in Korea change from school year to school year. Every explanation of a rule therefore states which school year or which calendar year it refers to. Articles whose reference year has passed are updated, or — where updating is not possible — marked at the top as describing a previous standard.
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