The Ministry of Education and the Korean Council for University Education said on the 13th that they will allow additional applications from students who could not complete their submissions for the 2027 early admissions cycle because of an outage in the Uwayapply application system on the 11th.
The two bodies said the additional filing window will be open only to students whose electronic records confirm that they were actually in the process of submitting an application when the system failed.
The outage ran from about 5:50 p.m. to 6:20 p.m. on the 11th. Some students encountered connection failures while saving their applications or paying application fees.
Universities extended the filing deadline to 7 p.m. that day, but some students either did not learn of the extension or continued to face the outage and ultimately failed to complete their submissions.
Of roughly 2.61 million early admissions applications nationwide, the ministry estimates that as many as 1,200 students were unable to finish filing because of the outage.
Eligibility is limited to students with electronic records showing they attempted to file during the outage.
Students qualify for additional filing if they logged in to Uwayapply and wrote or saved an application to a university, and if their final application details, including the admissions track and the program applied to, can be verified. Cases in which a student attempted to pay the application fee but the submission was not completed because of the outage are also included.
Students who failed to file at their intended university and instead redirected their applications elsewhere may also qualify, provided certain conditions are met. Records must show that they were filing through Uwayapply during the outage and that they subsequently applied to another university through Jinhakapply, as confirmed in the electronic records.
Students who left no trace of writing, saving, submitting or paying during the outage are excluded.
Changing the program applied to is also not permitted. In consideration of fairness to students who completed their filings normally, additional applications will be allowed only for the program identified in the electronic records from the time of the outage.
Applications for relief will be accepted from 9 a.m. on the 14th to 6 p.m. on the 16th through a dedicated bulletin board on the Uwayapply website.
Uwayapply and the individual universities will review each applicant's electronic records before deciding on eligibility. Students found eligible will receive individual guidance on how to file.
Students confirmed as eligible may submit their applications to the relevant university by 10 p.m. on the 16th. The ministry and the council said they will separately document the grounds for selecting eligible students and the outcome of each case.
The ministry and the council are also examining cases in which students filed new applications after competition ratios became public during the deadline extension. If the review finds unfair cases, they said they will consider separate measures.
They will also investigate the cause and circumstances of the Uwayapply outage. If necessary, they plan to pursue legal accountability, including referring the matter for a criminal investigation, while drawing up measures to prevent a recurrence and to improve the college application filing system as a whole.
