Korean Crime Cases

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Relationship between Var-ious Crime

1st Question

Number of Crime in Korea1

• 2002: 1,977,665• 2003: 2,004,329 • 2004: 2,080,901• 2005: 1,893,896 • 2006: 1,829,211 • 2007: 1,965,977

Number of Crime (In detail)1

Type of Crime

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Murder 6 12 10 6 11 7

Violence 514 555 524 513 816 325

Larceny 169 239 170 243 132 106

Smug-gle

10 11 23 23 51 169

Drugs 36 9 25 30 171 300

Unemployment rate in Korea2

• 2002: 752,000• 2003: 818,000• 2004: 860,000• 2005: 867,000• 2006: 827,000• 2007: 783,000

Relationship betweencrime and unemployment

• It’s not really obvious that unemployment presage crime. However, unemployment does affect to the crime. During 2002 to 2004 the number of unemployment and crime both in-creased. However, during 2005 to 2007 when number of unemployment increases then number of crime decreases and when number of unemployment decreases, it has opposite result. In conclusion, unemployment may af -fect to crime somehow but that influential.

Crime

3rd Question

Sexual Assault (Rape)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 122006

807 844 1134

1200

1279

1319

1406

1397

1246

1167

964 808

2007

951 852 1079

1185

1339

1338

1352

1383

1236

1092

915 912

2008

821 799 1124

1483

1581

1603

1627

1501

1358

1185

1066

986

2009

992 962 1215

1402

1455

1658

1663

1700

1495

1358

1119

1139

2010

1168

1135

1567

1644

1934

1938

2211

2283

1868

1680

1221

1310

Sexual Assault (Rape): Example• Nayoung Case: Is an incident that took place

in December 2008, in which an eight year old girl (alias Nayoung) was on her way to school when she was kidnapped by 57 year old Cho Doo Soon, who was drunk at the time. Cho raped and beat Nayoung at a public squat toi-let.Nayoung had injures to her internal organs, and was and taken to a hospital, surviving the incident. Cho was arrested and eventually sentenced to twelve years in prison.

Sexual Assault (Rape)• 41.4% of criminals were an employee

and 27.1% were unemployed person. From the criminals 34.1% were gradu-ated from high school and 7.4% were graduated from middle school3.

• From the victims 87.3% were women and 12.7% were men3.

• Accidental motive were 45.6%, curios-ity were 14.0%3.

Sexual Assault (Rape)• Often the victim doesn’t want others

know about what happened to her/him, so she/he hide the fact that they were raped by others. That’s one of the biggest reason why it’s hard to catch sex offender in Korea.

• The society is also the problem be-cause they don’t face the victim with same as before.

Court System

5th Question

Court System• Three levels of courts:

– Distinct Court: Included a specialized Family court, is the court of original jurisdiction (akin to trial court).

– High Court: The intermediate appellate court and an appeal from a District Court case is heard.

– Supreme Court: The highest court in the Korea. The chief judge of the supreme court is ap-pointed by president.

Court System cont

Supreme Court

The Office of Court Adminis-

tration

Training Institute for Court Clerks

The Judicial Research and

Training Institute

Supreme Court Library High Court

Distinct Court

Branch Court

Patent Court

Branch Court

As you can recognize it from the dia-gram there is only one supreme court in Korea. Unlike the diagram there are 5 high courts. There are more than 20 distinct courts and one patent court.

Court System cont• Constitutional Court system4: – NOT part of the regular judicial system.– Include following issues

1) The constitutionality of a law upon the request of the courts

2) Impeachment 3) Dissolution of a political party4) Competence disputes between state agencies,

between state agencies and local govern-ments, and between local governments

5) Constitutional complaints as prescribed by law

Court System- Supreme Court -

• The highest judicial tribunal in the nation. The Supreme Court is comprised of the Chief Justice and 13 Justices, serving as the final and highest tribunal regarding civil, criminal, family, administrative and military cases. The National Court Administration is headed by the Minister who concurrently serves as a Justice.

Court System: Civil Case• Case: High school teacher spilled the exam manuscript

to the students and one of the student accused the teacher (05.09.12).

• Procedure5 :– Trial Proceedings– Appeal Proceedings– Trial Proceedings on a Small Claim Case– Civil Conciliation Proceedings– Civil Execution Procedure– Statement of Property, Debt Defaulter Roster, and Property

Inquiry– Provisional Attachment and Provisional Disposition Procedure

Statistics of litigationfor civil case

Statistics from the Supreme Court of South Korea6

Court System: Criminal Case

• Case: The passenger attacked the taxi driver due to the fact that the taxi fee is too expensive (06.01.12).

• Procedure5:– Investigation and Accusation– Hearing– Right to Counsel– Request for Warrant of Detention and Examination of the Sus-

pect– Review of Legality of Arrest and Detention, and Release on Bail– Principle of Free Evaluation of Evidence and Confession of the

Accused– Judgment– Appeal Proceedings– Summary Trial Proceedings for Minor Offenses

Statistics of litigationfor criminal case

Statistics from the Supreme Court of South Korea6

Bibliography• 1- "Statistics for Crime and Safety." KOSIS. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June

2012. <http://kosis.kr/themes/themes_04List.jsp?parentId=B24>.• 2- "Statistics for Unemployment." KOSIS. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June

2012.<http://kosis.kr/themes/themes_04List.jsp?parentId=101_B18>.

• 3- 2011 Rape. Seoul: Public Prosecutors' Office, n.d. PDF.• 4- Lee, Hoon. "The Korean Judicial System." Korealaw. N.p., 20 July

2003. Web. 12 June 2012. <http://www.korealaw.com/sub/informa-tion/boardView.asp?brdIdx=2&mode=view&brdId=overview>.

• 5- "Civil/Criminal Case." Supreme Court of South Korea. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2012. <http://www.scourt.go.kr/info/cases_case/cases/criminal/index.html>.

• 6- "Statistics for Civil/Criminal Case." Supreme Court of South Ko-rea. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2012. <http://eng.scourt.go.kr/eng/re-sources/statistics_litigation_civil.jsp>.