SocietyYoon controversially challenges South Korean exam practices
President takes on lucrative cramming industry and educational inequality
Top tutors assume celebrity status on billboards advertising their cramming services. (Photo by Ahn Seong-bok)
JUNNOSUKE KOBARA, Nikkei staff writer
SEOUL -- South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol has stirred up the country's education system by suggesting that it is wrong for Suneung, the country's standardized university entrance examination, to include questions not covered in the textbooks used in state schools.