Enhancing Cooperation Between South Korea and the EU in the Fight Against Cybercrime

Cybercrime is one of the representative transnational crimes occurring across national jurisdictions and has become an international challenge with the Internet reaching developing countries since 2000. Since an effective response to cybercrime requires an enhanced level of global cooperation, South Korea has achieved a certain level of success through international cooperation. However, there is still a long way to succeed: participation of South Korea to the Convention on Cybercrime has been delayed, and cooperation with the EU has lagged behind compared to progress with the US and other Asian countries. This chapter reviews South Korea’s international cooperation framework on cybercrime and presents four solutions to promote EU-South Korea cooperation: (1) joining the Convention on Cybercrime of the Council of Europe, (2) establishing a working group on joint investigation in cybercrime, (3) implementing cybercrime capacity building projects in developing countries, (4) expanding cooperation on digital forensics technology.