據英國廣播公司21日報道，因在首爾一處考點參加高考時被提前90秒收走試卷，韓國39名考生將教育部門告上法庭，要求每人獲賠2000萬韓元（約11萬元人民幣），這也是他們復讀一年所需的費用。

A group of South Korean students are suing the government because their college admission examination ended 90 seconds earlier than scheduled.
因在參加高考時被提前90秒收走試卷，韓國學生將政府告上法庭。

They are asking for 20 million won each - the cost of a year's studying to retake the exam.
他們要求每人獲賠2000萬韓元，這也是他們復讀一年所需的費用。

The error affected the rest of the students' exams, their lawyer says.
涉事考生律師說，這一失誤影響了學生們的其他考試。

The country's college admission test, known as Suneung, is an eight-hour marathon with back-to-back papers in multiple subjects.
韓國高考又稱為韓國大學修學能力考試（簡稱“修能”），是一場長達八小時的馬拉松測試，多個科目連軸開考。

The Suneung is one of the hardest exams in the world.
“修能”考試是全球難度最高的考試之一。

A number of measures to help students concentrate are taken during the annual event such as closing the country's airspace and delaying the opening of the stock market.
在一年一度的考試期間，韓國采取了諸多措施幫助學生集中注意力，例如，關閉國家領空、推遲股市開盤。

The results of this year's exam were released on 8 December.
今年的考試成績于12月8日公布。

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by at least 39 students, claims that the bell rang earlier at a test site in the capital Seoul during Korean - the first subject of the exam.
這起由至少39名學生于19日提起的訴訟稱，在首爾某考點，第一科韓語考試期間鈴聲提前響起了。

Some students protested immediately, but say the supervisors still took their papers away. The teachers recognised the mistake before the start of the next session, and gave the one and half minutes back during the lunch break but they could only mark blank columns left on their papers and were not allowed to change any existing answers.
一些學生立即提出抗議，但他們表示監考官仍拿走了他們的試卷。老師們在下一科考試開始前意識到了這個錯誤，并在午休時間給學生一分半鐘的時間，但他們只能填寫未作答的題目，不允許更改任何現有答案。

The students said they were so upset that they could not focus on the rest of the exam, Yonhap news agency reports. Some reportedly gave up and returned home.
據韓聯社報道，學生們表示，他們非常沮喪，無法集中精力參加剩下的考試。據報道，一些人放棄考試回家了。

Their lawyer Kim Woo-suk told local media that education authorities had not apologized.
考生們的代理律師金宇錫告訴當地媒體，教育部門并沒有道歉。

Public broadcaster KBS quoted officials who said the supervisor in charge of the specific test center had misread the time.
韓國廣播公司KBS援引官員的話稱，負責該考場的監考官看錯了時間。

This is not the first time students have sued over a bell rung too early. In April, a court in Seoul awarded 7 million won ($5,250; ￡4,200) to students who claimed they were disadvantaged at the 2021 Suneung exam because their bell rang about two minutes earlier.
這已經不是韓國考生第一次因被提前收卷而提起訴訟了。2021年韓國“修能”考試時，交卷鈴聲提前大約兩分鐘響起。今年4月，首爾一家法院受理了此案件，并判決給受害學生700萬韓元（約3.8萬元人民幣）的補償。

來源：BBC
編輯：董靜