Former South Korean lawmaker reports incumbent and former deputy prime ministers over dereliction of duty in AI cheating on the tax accountant exam

Lee Jong-bae, a former Seoul city councilor from the People Power Party, said that on the 15th, regarding the controversy over the first-place finisher in this year's tax accountant exam cheating with AI, he reported to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency incumbent Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Lee Hyoung-il and former Deputy Prime Minister Koo Yun-cheol, accusing both of dereliction of duty. Examinee A appeared the same day on lawyer Lee Don-ho's YouTube channel to apologize, and stated that in the first and second stages of the 63rd tax accountant exam they used a miniature camera, a smartphone and generative AI to cheat, and had submitted a written confession to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency; after receiving the confession, the police had already transferred the case to the agency's public crime investigation unit. Lee Jong-bae argued that if cheating using devices such as AI smart glasses had been detected multiple times in exams administered by the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, which administers the exam under commission, then the Minister of Economy and Finance, as the minister of the commissioning authority, should have reviewed and strengthened the oversight system, and failing to do so constitutes dereliction of duty. The tax accountant exam is a national qualification examination administered by that agency under government commission.