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4Status for occurrence and arrest of major economic crimes

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Status for occurrence and arrest of major economic crimes

Cases	Year	Total	Fraud	Embezzlement	Misappropriation	Bribery	Sale of credit	Money, oil prices, stock forgery	Violation of other laws
Occurred cases	2011	286,615	223,470	26,767	4,725	586	15,126	8,703	7,238
	2012	305,176	235,408	31,234	4,220	357	18,994	8,710	6,253
	2013	337,027	269,082	34,892	4,617	253	18,553	4,330	5,300
	2014	308,614	238,409	37,024	4,456	251	21,094	3,130	4,250
	2015	327,335	247,293	46,734	4,289	247	23,519	2,104	3,149
	2016	324,821	241,613	50,053	4,358	260	24,229	2,029	2,279
	2017	312,975	231,489	50,498	3,706	312	22,042	3,011	1,917
	2018	355,686	270,029	55,113	4,344	347	22,904	1,194	1,755
	2019	392,806	304,472	58,508	4,566	260	22,323	1,120	1,557
	2020	434,698	347,675	58,889	4,092	289	22,218	710	825
Arrested cases	2011	212,747	167,362	20,094	4,211	571	14,493	631	5,385
	2012	210,199	160,838	21,923	3,661	340	18,410	624	4,403
	2013	216,271	165,987	23,708	4,041	234	17,958	510	3,833
	2014	215,250	164,594	22,761	3,986	242	20,354	431	2,882
	2015	248,879	192,694	26,449	3,893	229	22,801	407	2,406
	2016	253,561	197,359	26,470	3,958	247	23,630	306	1,591
	2017	236,812	183,974	25,690	3,331	290	21,518	693	1,316
	2018	257,288	202,300	27,107	3,904	328	22,243	153	1,253
	2019	279,304	225,121	27,091	4,065	240	21,586	210	991
	2020	291,005	237,407	27,883	3,545	259	21,224	131	556

※ The status of 2021 is to be updated on August 2022.

5Tendency for occurrence and arrest of prosecution cancellations

Category	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Occurred	93,647	89,876	90,141	80,148	61,063	47,807	36,640	35,696	33,886	43,965
Arrested	80,757	78,560	97,624	89,228	91,285	64,201	45,402	38,439	34,399	31,793

6Status for occurrence and arrest of 5 major crimes

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Status for occurrence and arrest of 5 major crimes (Unit: no. of people)

Category		2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Total	Occurred	617,910	624,956	606,362	579,057	574,021	535,898	501,978	488,288	499,010	467,547
Total	Arrested	383,538	382,248	383,357	384,034	411,328	412,462	395,798	381,385	389,964	363,743
Murder	Occurred	1,204	984	918	907	919	906	818	791	775	720
Murder	Arrested	1,154	960	903	895	899	902	820	777	776	701
Burglary	Occurred	3,994	2,586	1,978	1,586	1,445	1,149	965	818	798	662
Burglary	Arrested	3,385	2,239	1,856	1,546	1,456	1,168	975	818	801	656
Rape	Occurred	19,491	19,619	22,292	21,045	21,280	22,193	24,106	23,467	23,531	21,702
Rape	Arrested	16,399	16,581	19,755	20,026	20,519	21,451	23,284	22,633	22,680	21,061
Theft	Occurred	281,359	290,055	287,704	266,059	245,121	202,874	183,565	176,613	186,649	179,315
Theft	Arrested	112,849	106,060	118,074	119,354	126,703	118,476	113,625	106,535	113,427	111,112
Assault	Occurred	311,862	311,712	293,470	289,460	305,256	308,776	292,524	286,599	287,257	265,148
Assault	Arrested	249,751	256,408	242,769	242,213	261,751	270,465	257,094	250,622	252,280	230,213

Note 1) Homicide includes murder or manslaughter, infanticide, killing of lineal ascendant, contract or consensual killing, aiding or abetting of suicide, and murder by deception, coercion, contract or consensual killing as set forth under the Criminal Act (including attempt, abetting, aiding, or preparation )

Note 2) Rape or involuntary sexual acts include rape, forced sexual groping, quasi rape, rape-related injury or manslaughter, sexual assault-related injury or manslaughter, death due to rape, rape or sexual abuse of minors, prison or corrective rape, statutory rape involving minors (rape or sexual assault-related manslaughter), and similar rape and sexual acts as set forth under the Criminal Act as of 2010, Act on Special Cases Concerning The Punishment, Etc. of Sexual Crimes (Article 3 or 11), and Act on The Protection of Children and Juveniles Against Sexual Abuse (Article 7 or 10) (including attempt, abetting, aiding, or preparation).

Note 3) Violence includes assault, injury, apprehension, detention, threat, abduction, kidnapping, damage, or impairment under Punishment of Violences, Etc. Act

※ The status of 2021 is to be updated on September 2022.

2Status for control of foreign criminals

Year	Total	Murder	Burglary	Rape	Theft	Assault	Intellectual criminal	Drugs	Gambling	Traffic	etc.
'15	35,443	93	118	598	2,291	9,786	3,781	386	852	9,617	7,921
'16	41,044	108	77	628	2,811	9,711	3,767	646	578	11,435	11,283
'17	33,905	103	63	723	2,898	8,952	3,538	578	460	8,404	8,186
'18	32,313	82	51	766	2,916	8,549	3,846	549	420	7,123	8,011
'19	36,400	82	70	732	3,158	8,769	4,388	1,027	434	7,690	10,050
'20	35,390	76	66	590	2,756	7,917	5,011	1,383	500	7,910	9,181

5Status of industrial technology leakage by year

Status of industrial technology leakage by year - Number of arrests by year
year	Total	'16year	'17year	'18year	'19year	'20year
Total	618	114	140	117	112	135

Year	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Occurred	1,752,598	1,793,400	1,857,276	1,778,966	1,861,657	1,849,450	1,662,341	1,580,751	1,611,906	1,587,866
Arrested	1,382,463	1,370,121	1,420,658	1,392,112	1,500,234	1,552,455	1,413,717	1,328,609	1,342,854	1,289,129

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