South Korea Black Market Value: $26.2 Billion

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South Korea Black Market Value:
$26.2 Billion

Average Country Black Market: $21.25 Billion

Drug prices, counterfeit goods and other available market rates for South Korea listed below. Source for the financial value is available by clicking on the dollar figure. Click on the illegal activity for additional crime statistics.

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Ecstasy Price: $78.1 per tablet
Heroin Price: $101.5 per gram
Marijuana Price: $3.1 per gram
Book Piracy: $44 Million
Counterfeit Auto Parts: $200 Million
Counterfeit Goods: $14.2 Billion
Movie Piracy: $1000 Million (1.0 Billion
Music Piracy: $0.3 Million
Prostitution: $12 Billion
Software Piracy: $815 Million
Video Game Piracy: $461.9 Million
Total Country Black Market Value: $26.2 Billion


South Korea Black Market Crime Statistics

Foreign cash entering North Korea’s black market

Every year, North Korean defectors living in South Korea are sending an estimated $10 Million to family and villages in North Korea. The 23,000 defectors send the money is bundles of $500 to $1,000 at a time. The amount of the bundles are enough to feed a family for one year in North Korea.

Source: Chico Harlan, “In North Korea, role of foreign currency grows,” Washington Post, February 15, 2012.

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See all crime statistics on: North Korea, South Korea | February 15th, 2012
Illegal drugs in South Korea trafficked from China

In 2010, South Korean authorities seized 8,200 grams of foreign-produced methamphetamine within the country. Of that total, around 57 percent of the illicit drugs originated from China. Law enforcement believe that a large portion of the drugs were trafficked through North Korea on its way towards South Korea.

Source: Kim Young-Jin, “North Korea feared to flood South with drugs,” Korea Times, February 8, 2012.

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See all crime statistics on: China, Methamphetamine, North Korea, South Korea | February 8th, 2012
South Korean Prostitutes in Australia

The Government of South Korea estimates that there are at least 1,000 South Korean women working in the prostitution industry in Australia. Authorities believe that many of them are victims of human trafficking.

Source: Nick Tabakoff, “Korea’s sex call – dob in our prostitutes,” Telegraph, February 6, 2012.

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See all crime statistics on: Australia, Human Trafficking, Prostitution, South Korea | February 6th, 2012
Methamphetamine is the top drug in several Asian countries

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported in 2011 that methamphetamine was the most widely used drug in the following Asian countries:

Brunei, Cambodia, Japan, Laos, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand.

Source: Andrew R.C. Marshall, “Special Report: In Mekong, Chinese murders and bloody diplomacy,” Reuters, January 27, 2012.

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See all crime statistics on: Brunei, Cambodia, Japan, Laos, Methamphetamine, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand | January 27th, 2012
South Korean women working as prostitutes in Australia

There are an estimated 1,000 women from South Korea who are working in the prostitution industry in Australia, according to a South Korean government official.

Source: “S. Korea, Australia seek to crack down on prostitution,” Yonhap, November 14, 2011.

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See all crime statistics on: Australia, Prostitution, South Korea | November 14th, 2011
Illegal fishing fines of Chinese boats in South Korea

Between 2007 and August 2011, the South Korean Coast Guard apprehended 1,887 Chinese boats that was illegally fishing in South Korean waters. The boats were fined a total of $23 Million for their illegal fishing, with each boat being fined an average of $25,183 to $50,367.

Source: “Chinese Vessels Fined USs$23 Million For Illegal Fishing – Report,” Bernama, October 4, 2011.

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See all crime statistics on: China, Illegal Fishing, South Korea | October 5th, 2011
Luxury purse smuggling in South Korea

During the summer of 2011, Customs in South Korea caught 5,385 people attempting to smuggle more luxury purses into the country that is allowed under duty-free limits. The number of smugglers caught between July 18 and then end of August was 18 percent higher then the number of people caught in 2010.

The most popular luxury bag smuggled was Chanel, followed by Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Prada and Hermes. A government report back in 2008 reported that Chanel was the most counterfeited bag in South Korea as well.

Source: “Incheon Customs Catch More Luxury Goods Smugglers,” Chosum Ilbo, September 5, 2011.

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See all crime statistics on: South Korea, Tax Evasion | September 5th, 2011
Counterfeit good seizures in South Korea 2011

In the first half of 2011, Louis Vuitton was the most seized counterfeit good in South Korea.

1,232 counterfeit Louis Vuitton items were seized in the first six months of 2011, followed by LeSportsac, Chanel, Gucci and Nike.

LeSportsac had the most counterfeit purses seized, with 1,180 counterfeit bags seized by authorities. 257 counterfeit Louis Vuitton purses was seized during the time period.

Source: “Louis Vuitton Knockoffs Most Favored in Korea,” Chosun Ilbo, July 14, 2011.

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See all crime statistics on: Counterfeit Purses, South Korea | July 13th, 2011
Human smuggling broker earnings in South Korea

A broker who arranges people to be smuggled out of North Korea and into China and South Korea told the BBC that she earns between $2,000 to $3,000 a month.

Source: Lucy Williamson, “Shadowy world of Korea’s people smugglers,” BBC News, July 6, 2011.

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See all crime statistics on: Human Smuggling, North Korea, South Korea | July 13th, 2011
Human smuggling fee from North Korean to South Korea

According to a woman attempting to smuggle her family into South Korea from North Korea, the reported price was $3,500 from North Korea into China and an additional $2,500 to bring the person into South Korea.

Source: Lucy Williamson, “Shadowy world of Korea’s people smugglers,” BBC News, July 6, 2011.

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See all crime statistics on: Human Smuggling, North Korea, South Korea | July 13th, 2011
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