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.
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Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information, etc. Article 48 (Prohibition on Intrusive Acts, etc. on Information and Communications Network) (2) No one shall mutilate, destroy, alter, or forge an information and communications system, data, program, or similar without a justifiable grounds, nor shall convey or spread a program that is likely to interrupt operation of such system, data, program, or similar (hereinafter referred to as “malicious program”).
Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) is a type of cybercrime with the aim to prevent a target website from functioning by transmitting multiple connection requests to target servers that exceed the traffic capacity of these servers.
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Digital piracy investigations are carried out by the Special Judicial Police (SJP) of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST). The SJP is special investigative authority installed in government departments, specializing in investigating criminal cases in violation of special acts. It undertakes specific functions designated by the Prosecutors’ Office supplementing the responsibilities of the national police.
The GCCS Conference was proposed by the UK and was held in London. It is a global multistakeholder meeting to promote international cooperation in cyberspace.
These points are the author’s summary based on his involvement in the preparation of the Conference on Cyber Space in 2013, and the ROK-US Summit in 2015.
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A joint investigation happens between countries with jurisdiction over a crime launching investigations in their respective country in accordance with their laws and sharing information with one another. It is an investigation method to overcome the problem of delays and obstacles due to several judicial jurisdictions.
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