[WHY] Turning pain into profit: How Korean society enabled the rise of ‘cyber wreckers’

[YOON SO-YEON, Korea JoonAng Daily] (전략) Many wreckers wreck for money, but for the viewers, it’s like scratching the itch from what the public considers an inept judicial system. 

Almost nine out of 10 Korean citizens say that punishments for criminal cases are too lenient. According to a 2020 survey of 1,000 respondents conducted by Hankook Research, 87 percent said that punishments are too “weak” and 66 percent said they do not trust the decisions that come from courts. 

Add this to Korea’s ever-growing IT infrastructure and the absence of real-world actors that retaliate against criminals, like in other countries, you get wreckers, says Bae Sang-hoon, a former profiler at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and an affiliate professor at the school of police administration at Woosuk University. (후략)   

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