Up to 1,200 Students Failed to Complete College Application Submissions Due to System Failure

The Ministry of Education and the Korean Council for University Education (KCUE) have decided to implement relief measures for college applicants who were unable to complete their early admissions application submissions due to a network system failure that occurred on the 11th.

The Ministry of Education and the KCUE announced that they will accept individual applications for students whose submissions were not completed due to the system glitch.

The application system malfunction occurred due to a system error at UwayApply, an application agency, with reports indicating that some students experienced difficulties during the application process, such as saving their applications and paying screening fees.

Consequently, the application deadline was extended to 7 p.m., but the Ministry of Education and the KCUE stated that cases were identified where students failed to complete their submissions due to reasons such as not checking the extension notice.

Out of the approximately 2.61 million early admissions applications for the 2027 academic year, it is estimated that up to about 1,200 students failed to complete their submissions in this manner.

This relief measure applies to test-takers whose relevant records confirm that they failed to complete their application submissions due to the system glitch, or that they were inevitably forced to apply to a different university instead of their original choice.

Specific eligibility for relief will be determined by verifying the correlation between system records—such as application drafting, saving, submission, and payment attempts—and the occurrence of the malfunction.

Considering fairness toward students who completed their applications normally, the relief procedure will be conducted within the scope of not changing the application recruitment unit verified through system records. The ministry plans to record and manage the verification grounds and processing results for eligible students to secure the fairness and reliability of the measures.

Relief applications can be submitted starting from 9 a.m. tomorrow, Monday the 14th, until 6 p.m. on Wednesday the 16th, through a dedicated relief application board to be opened on the UwayApply website (www.uwayapply.com).

After reviewing the applicants' system records, UwayApply and the universities will individually notify eligible students of the application procedure, and the notified students will be able to submit their applications to the respective universities by 10 p.m. on Wednesday the 16th.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education and the KCUE are currently checking the status of newly applied students at universities where competition rates were exposed during the extended university-specific application periods.

Depending on the results, they plan to devise additional measures if unfair cases are discovered.

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