Questions to be used in today's state license examination for dentists may have been leaked, the Health and Welfare Ministry revealed Tuesday.

The ministry indicated that it will pursue criminal charges against those responsible if it establishes that the questions have been released and that it will change the contents of the exams, which begin across the country today.

According to officials of the ministry, the leak was made known through phone calls earlier this month from two men who identified themselves as students at a prep school for state license exams.