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Asia > Korea, South > Crime

KOREAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Bribe payers index 3.4 [18th of 19]
Jails 42 [28th of 0]
Judges and Magistrates 1,598 [15th of 35]
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Chamber Appeal
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Elected 2003, 2006
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Name Sang-Hyun Song
Judges of the International Criminal Court > Term End 2015
Manslaughters 3,737 [4th of 42]
Murders 955 [15th of 49]
Murders committed by youths 282 [17th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 1.7 [39th of 0]
Police 90,210 [13th of 47]
Prisoners 58,564 prisoners [10th of 0]
Rapes 6,139 [11th of 50]
Robberies 4,524 [29th of 47]
Software piracy rate 43% [80th of 107]
Total crimes 1,543,220 [11th of 50]
United States extradition treaties > Date signed June 9, 1998
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force December 20, 1999
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 0.4 [118th of 143]

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SOURCES: Transparency International; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); Wikipedia: Judges of the International Criminal Court ; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets Ray Fisman Edward Miguel Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Korea, South, Republic of Korea, South Korea, Taehan-min'guk, korea, republic of, korea, rep. of, korea-south, SKOREA, Korea Republic, Korean Republic, Korea (Rep.), Korea

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