Korea is heavily dependent on information communication networks. Government went more online; inner paperwork and decision process are mostly done with computer network with digital signatures, certified copies are obtainable family, residence registration and land and building ledger via Internet. This situation is similar in energy, transportation, and financial sectors. Online shopping topped the rank of credit card payment of people in their 20s and 30s. More Koreans are buying fresh fruits and eggs from online markets.

 

In Republic of Korea, annually over 80,000 cyber crime cases are being reported to police. The Cyber Terror Response Center’s Investigation Strategy Team annually summarizes the crime trend based on the data from provincial police agencies; 2006 record shows that 41% of them were auction fraud, followed by intrusion & malwares relations (23%), Online defamation (10%), illegal web contents (8%), copyrights violation (3%) and others (15%).

 

For criminals, also ambiguous, it has recently recognized as adopted foreign words into
cyberspace offers higher profit with lower risk of getting caught, less guilty conscience. So cyber crime is no more work of so-called ‘hackers’ or computer technicians; it is rather money-driven crime usually done by Possible victims are anyone who use computer, especially subscribers of services which are enabled by computer based communication.