South Korean Government Cracks Down on Troubled Private Universities

In a bid to exert more control over wayward private universities and deal with what it described as rampant corruption at some of them, South Korea's education ministry has demanded that three of the institutions fire 68 faculty members and administrators.

Citing an intensive investigation over the past several months, the ministry contends that the...

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