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By Yeni Seo and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – More than half a million South Koreans sat for the annual national college entrance exams on Thursday, pandemic rules adding stress to the eight-hour event seen as life-defining in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. This year’s test-takers didn’t face the delays and uncertainties of the first pandemic-era exams last year, but COVID-19 measures have left their mark on the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) widely considered as indispensable for landing one of a limited number of jobs in a competitive society. “I couldn’t go to private institutes, s…