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Prosecution Request Estimator: list of crimes
Choose a crime to see its statutory penalty and the likely handling of the case depending on the circumstances.
Violence 31
- Bodily injury
- Assault
- Special bodily injury
- Special assault
- Joint assault
- Joint bodily injury
- Intimidation (threat)
- Special intimidation
- Joint intimidation
- Arrest and confinement
- Coercion
- Trespass (entering a home)
- Property damage
- Joint property damage
- Assaulting a driver of a moving vehicle
- Domestic violence
- Child abuse (physical or emotional abuse, neglect)
- Stalking
- Violating a stalking provisional measure or emergency measure
- Forming or taking part in a criminal organization
- Occupational negligence causing injury
- Occupational or gross negligence causing death
- Negligence causing injury
- Carrying a weapon, etc. (likely offender)
- Displaying a weapon in a public place
- Bodily injury causing death (including of a lineal ascendant)
- Assault causing death (including of a lineal ascendant)
- Murder
- Human trafficking
- Abduction or kidnapping of a minor
- Failure to comply with a domestic violence protective disposition or victim protection order
Sex crimes 28
- Indecent assault (sexual molestation by force)
- Quasi-indecent assault
- Rape
- Quasi-rape
- Imitative rape / quasi-imitative rape
- Rape (or similar) causing injury
- Molestation in a crowded public place
- Indecent act by abuse of occupational authority
- Filming with a camera, etc. (illegal filming)
- Distributing intimate images (including images filmed with consent)
- Possessing, buying, storing or viewing illegally filmed footage
- Editing or distributing fake sexual videos (deepfakes)
- Threats or coercion using sexual footage or synthesized material
- Obscene acts using communication media
- Public indecency
- Intrusion into a multi-use place for a sexual purpose
- Prostitution (buying sex)
- Arranging prostitution (running an establishment, etc.)
- Buying sex from a child or juvenile
- Arranging prostitution at an adult entertainment establishment
- Advertising prostitution
- Forcing someone into prostitution by violence, threats, deception, etc.
- Buying, possessing or viewing child or youth sexual exploitation material
- Indecent assault on a child or youth, etc.
- Sexual intercourse or indecent acts with a person aged 13 or over but under 16 (by a person aged 19 or over)
- Luring or soliciting a child or youth to sell sex
- Sexual intercourse by abuse of occupational authority, etc.
- Rape or indecent assault after breaking into a home, etc.
Property 24
- Theft
- Night-time burglary (theft after entering a home at night)
- Special theft
- Embezzlement of lost property
- Acquiring stolen goods
- Fraud
- Computer fraud
- Taking part in voice phishing (fraud)
- Lending or selling bank accounts (transferring or lending access media)
- Using a lost or stolen credit card
- Insurance fraud
- Fraud, embezzlement or breach of trust under the Specific Economic Crimes Act (KRW 500 million or more)
- Embezzlement
- Occupational embezzlement
- Extortion
- Forging or altering credit cards, and selling or using forged cards
- Transferring or acquiring a credit card
- Selling or possessing goods with counterfeit trademarks (selling fakes)
- Breach of trust
- Habitual theft
- Robbery
- Quasi-robbery (using force after theft)
- Robbery causing injury
- Fraudulent receipt of national health insurance benefits
Traffic 14
- Drunk driving (DUI)
- Refusing a breathalyzer test
- Drunk driving accident (injury or death)
- Driving without a license
- Riding a motorized bicycle without a license
- Hit-and-run (fleeing after causing injury)
- Hit-and-run causing death
- Failing to take action after an accident (property damage)
- Traffic accident causing injury (Act on Special Cases Concerning the Settlement of Traffic Accidents)
- Traffic accident causing death (Act on Special Cases Concerning the Settlement of Traffic Accidents)
- Traffic accident in a children's protection zone (Minsik's Law)
- Operating construction machinery without a license, driving machinery held for sale, etc.
- Driving a vehicle without mandatory insurance
- Carrying passengers for money in a private vehicle (illegal taxi service)
Drugs 11
- Methamphetamine: use, possession or dealing
- Cannabis: smoking, possession or dealing
- Narcotics (cocaine, etc.): use
- Narcotics: possession or giving/receiving; heroin: possession or use
- Narcotics (cocaine, heroin, etc.): import/export, manufacture or dealing
- Methamphetamine and other psychotropic drugs: manufacture or import/export
- Cannabis: import or export
- Manufacturing, importing or exporting drugs for profit or habitually
- Aggravated drug trafficking (import, export, manufacture, etc.) under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes
- Importing or exporting a substance believing it to be drugs
- Transferring, acquiring or possessing a substance believing it to be drugs
Cyber 9
- Defamation through an information and communications network (online defamation)
- Repeatedly sending messages that cause fear or anxiety
- Distributing obscene material online
- Providing or leaking personal information without authorization
- Intrusion into an information and communications network
- Damaging another person's information, or infringing or leaking their secrets (other than hacking)
- Collecting other people's information by deception (phishing)
- Illegal wiretapping or recording other people's conversations, and disclosing them
- Secret location tracking (collecting personal location information without consent)
Reputation 3
Public duties 14
- Fraudulent passport issuance (false statements, etc.)
- Using another person's passport, or transferring or lending a passport
- Receiving or borrowing another person's passport
- Obstruction of the performance of official duties
- Special obstruction of official duties, etc.
- Perjury
- False accusation
- Harboring a criminal (helping a criminal escape)
- Obstruction of official duties by deception
- Taking money on the pretext of lobbying public officials
- Offering a bribe
- False appraisal, interpretation or translation
- Destroying evidence or hiding a witness
- Impersonating a public official
Finance 14
- Forging or altering access media
- Smuggling imports (importing without declaration or declaring different goods)
- Importing or exporting prohibited goods (smuggling)
- Acquiring, transferring, transporting or storing smuggled goods
- Concealing or disguising criminal proceeds
- Receiving criminal proceeds
- Financial transactions in another person's name for illegal purposes, or arranging them
- Unregistered foreign exchange business (hwanchigi, etc.)
- Unregistered money exchange business
- Failure to declare cash or other means of payment when entering or leaving Korea
- Unregistered money lending
- Unauthorized fundraising (raising investment money with promises of principal or high returns)
- Smuggling goods out of Korea (exporting without declaration or under a false declaration)
- Customs duty evasion (false declaration of price or tariff rate)
Labor 14
- Interfering in the selection or placement of foreign workers, failing to take return measures, receiving money, etc.
- Unpaid wages (not paying wages, shutdown allowances or overtime pay)
- Paying less than the minimum wage
- Failure to take out departure insurance or wage surety insurance (employer of foreign workers)
- Fraudulent receipt of unemployment benefits or other employment insurance benefits
- Non-payment of severance pay
- Forced labor, assault of workers, intermediary exploitation, etc.
- Breach of the duty to take safety and health measures
- Breach of the duty to take safety and health measures causing death (death of a worker)
- Running a fee-charging job placement business without registration
- Supplying workers without a license
- Taking money from job seekers
- False job advertisement or false working conditions
- Illegal worker dispatch (dispatch outside permitted jobs or periods, or without a license)
Food and health 13
- Selling medicines outside a pharmacy
- Selling medicines without a license
- Manufacturing or selling illicit medicines (unlicensed, etc.)
- Practicing medicine without a license
- Massage without a qualification (worker or owner)
- Running a public health business without reporting it (lodging, bathhouse, barber or beauty, laundry, etc.)
- Running a barber or beauty business without a license, lending a license, etc.
- Running a restaurant without reporting it, or not reporting a business takeover
- Hostess entertainment or arranging it (at ordinary restaurants, etc.)
- Importing food without an import report, or running an unregistered imported food business
- Selling tobacco without being designated as a retailer
- Evading quarantine inspection, refusing isolation measures, etc.
- Violating an animal culling order, or importing in breach of quarantine
Administration 2
Environment 1
Other 25
- Employing foreigners staying illegally
- Brokering employment of foreigners staying illegally
- False invitation of foreigners
- Illegal entry (smuggling into Korea)
- False entry in public electronic records (sham marriage, etc.)
- Forging and using a public document
- Forging and using a private document
- Obstruction of business
- Gambling
- Opening a gambling place
- Illegal sports betting (using unlicensed betting sites)
- Stowing away (leaving or entering Korea illegally by boat)
- Arranging stowaways for profit
- Improper use of an official document (using someone else's ID)
- Causing false entries in official records, and using them
- Counterfeiting, altering or using Korean currency
- Counterfeiting, altering or using foreign currency
- Hiring hostesses at a karaoke room, or arranging prostitution
- Possessing a sword, crossbow, spray weapon or stun gun without a permit
- Possessing firearms or explosives without a permit
- Habitual gambling
- Running a casino without a permit
- Running an illegal sports betting (Sports Toto) business (issuing look-alike betting tickets)
- Causing a fire by negligence
- Arson of an inhabited building or public building
This is only an estimate based on how investigative agencies usually handle cases. The actual decision and request depend on the facts of the case, such as a settlement, prior convictions and how the crime happened, and on the judgment of the prosecutor in charge; the final sentence is decided by the court. If you are about to be questioned, do not rely on this result alone and talk to a lawyer first.
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