CoronavirusSouth Korea college exam puts students and COVID protocols to test
490,000 high schoolers, including virus patients, to determine their futures
South Korean students, separated by plastic barriers, take the annual college entrance exam in Seoul on Dec. 3. © Getty Images
KIM JAEWON, Nikkei staff writer
December 3, 2020 10:38 JST
Updated on December 3, 2020 11:40 JST
SEOUL -- Were it not for South Korea's latest wave of COVID-19, Choi would have caught up with his old high school classmates in Seoul recently for an annual dinner. Instead, the senior accountant and his buddies are lying low as a new generation of high school seniors sits for the national college entrance exam on Thursday.