Police Launch Special Crackdown on 'Industrial Technology Overseas Leakage Offenders' for 6 Months

345 Technology Leakage Offenders Arrested Last Year

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-joo] The National Police Agency's National Investigation Headquarters announced on the 3rd that it will conduct a "Special Crackdown on Industrial Technology Overseas Leakage Offenders" for six months from this month until the end of October.

The Police Industrial Technology Protection Investigation Team has cracked down on a total of 618 cases and 1,740 offenders involved in technology leakage over the past five years. In particular, last year, they succeeded in arresting 135 cases and 345 individuals.

However, the police explained that arrests of overseas leakage offenders accounted for only about 12% of the total, with 75 cases over the past five years. It is especially expected that attempts to steal technology and personnel from key domestic industries such as semiconductors, secondary batteries, and shipbuilding by major overseas competitors like China will steadily increase.

This special crackdown by the police is interpreted as a determination to prevent such overseas technology leakage in advance. The main targets of the crackdown are crimes involving the overseas leakage of defense industry technology, which is core to national security, and industrial technologies that require enhancement of industrial competitiveness or prevention of leakage.

A police official emphasized, "We will operate a special crackdown period on industrial technology overseas leakage offenders to protect the core technologies of domestic companies and contribute to enhancing national competitiveness."

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