Uwayapply, which handles domestic university application submissions alongside Jinhakapply, suffered a server crash at about 5:50 p.m. on September 11, 10 minutes before the original 6 p.m. deadline for 2027 early admissions. The system was restored around 6:20 p.m., and the Korean Council for University Education extended the deadline to 7 p.m. The Ministry of Education estimated that up to 1,200 students could qualify for relief, while Uwayapply opened a relief application board at 9 a.m. on the 14th. The 56 participating universities will accept relief applications until 6 p.m. on the 16th, and eligible applicants must complete guided submissions by 10 p.m. that day. Eligibility depends on digital records showing attempts to write, save or pay during the outage, followed by verification by Uwayapply and the universities. The disruption has also drawn scrutiny to the private agencies’ business model and oversight. Students pay 30,000 to 100,000 Korean won per application, while the agencies receive 4,000 to 5,000 won per submission; with early applications exceeding 2.61 million, their combined fees surpassed 10 billion won. Uwayapply’s facility acquisition costs, including servers, fell from 738.2 million won in March 2018 to 112.4 million won in March 2025. The agencies are private contractors operating under individual university agreements and are not directly audited or managed by the Ministry of Education or the Korea Council for University Education. Regulators have also found that both companies provided goods and school development funds to universities to secure or maintain contracts.