Hallym University Successfully Hosts International Academic Seminar Co-Organized with Six Institutions Including Korean National Police University and Yonsei University

Hallym University (President Choi Yanghee) successfully held the "2026 International Academic Seminar" on April 7 at Yonsei University to share the severity of emerging transnational cyber fraud crimes and discuss integrated response measures among the private sector, government, and academia.

Hallym University (President Yanghee Choi) held the "2026 International Academic Seminar" on the 7th at Yonsei University to share the seriousness of transnational new cyber fraud crimes and discuss integrated public-private-academic response measures. Photo by Hallym University

The seminar, titled "Beyond Frontiers: Integrated Responses to Multi-Victim Cyber Fraud," was co-hosted by six institutions united in the goal of eradicating global fraud: Hallym University, the Financial Crime Analysis Center of the Korean National Police University, Yonsei University and its CLIO Institute for Social Development, the Korea Data Forensics Society, and the Korean Association of Police Studies.

Key figures from major investigative and judicial agencies, including the National Digital Forensic Center of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, the Future Security Policy Bureau of the Korean National Police Agency, the Judicial Research & Training Institute, and the Police Investigation Academy, attended the event. Their participation demonstrated the investigative authorities’ strong interest and commitment to combating increasingly sophisticated fraud crimes. This session featured keynote presentations by four crime response experts from Korea, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.

Professor Yoon Soosik of Korea University introduced "Risk Assessment Technologies for Multi-Victim Cyber Fraud" in connection with the Korean National Police Agency’s public safety R&D project, "Development of an Integrated Analysis and Inference System for Cybercrime Investigation Clues" (lead institution: Hallym University). He presented a technical approach that preprocesses fragmented crime data using knowledge graphs and artificial intelligence (AI) to classify new fraud techniques and proactively identify and predict the risk of multi-victim incidents, thereby supporting investigators.

Professor Branislav Hock of the University of Portsmouth in the UK defined fraud not merely as a perpetrator-victim relationship but as an "organized attack on the legitimate sharing ecosystem"—including banks, telecoms, and online platforms—and as a "problem of collective action." He emphasized, with UK case studies, that clear role allocation among stakeholders and an "institutional design" where costs and benefits are proportionate are essential for effective public-private partnerships (PPP).

Aileen Yap, Director of the Anti-Scam Command at the Singapore Police Force, presented Singapore’s nationwide, whole-of-society anti-scam infrastructure. She shared strong and proactive protective measures such as the AI-powered spam-blocking app "ScamShield," transfer delay and blocking features like Cooling-Off and Money Lock, and the world’s first "Protection from Scams Act," which allows the police to forcibly freeze accounts even when victims are unaware of being scammed. These initiatives provided concrete policy directions for Korean investigative and financial authorities to counter increasingly sophisticated multi-victim fraud crimes.

Representing the frontlines of investigation, Choi Seungwoo, Inspector of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Investigation Division at Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, presented the evolving patterns of phishing crimes encountered in the field. He analyzed the sophistication of crimes such as the formation of criminal hubs in Southeast Asia, the development of IT infrastructure specializing in supplying USIMs and signal repeaters, the emergence of "predatory parasitic organizations" (Pingdon scams) targeting core criminal groups, and cryptocurrency-based money laundering. He stressed the urgent need for engineering detection solutions to disrupt money flows and called for active international cooperation.

In the subsequent general discussion, Kang Wook, Professor at the Korean National Police University, served as moderator, with panelists including Professor Kim Jion of Hallym University, Professor Min Kyungseon of Jeonbuk National University, Glen Prichard, Chief of Cyber and Technology Crime at UNODC, and Evelyn Fang, Senior Policy Advisor at the UK Home Office. They engaged in a heated debate centered on the "UN Convention against Cybercrime."

This international seminar is expected to serve as a catalyst for effective solidarity to build a safe global cyber ecosystem against "transnational cyber disasters," which are difficult to counter with the capacity of a single nation or institution alone. Notably, with key personnel from the prosecution and police and leading domestic and international experts assembling to establish an integrated network, cross-border investigative cooperation and crime response capabilities are expected to be significantly enhanced in the future.

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