A lawmaker from an opposition party disclosed this on Monday.

According to him, the education office, much upset by the publication of a declaration on the situation by the students in protest against the IS's illegal interference in the election in July last, secretly planted watchers among the participants in the candlelight meetings in a bid to grasp their tendency.

Those who disguised themselves as participants informed the superintendent of education of Seoul City of the turnout, the accounts of the speeches made, literature, etc.

The education office invited them to wining and dining to project them.

This was reportedly done at the direct instruction of the superintendent of education of Seoul City.

It was also disclosed that the education office in Inchon City, investigating those students in most schools in Inchon area in September who took part in the meeting to issue a declaration on the situation, threatened them with expulsion and disciplinary actions and gathered the information related to the movement for issuing the declaration on the situation.