[1] As of July 2008, the Center had over 900 employees; majority of them police officers specializing in the cybercrime investigations.
[1] The Center investigates cybercrimes, incidents of cyber terrorism, and provides digital forensics services to the Korean police.
[1] As of 2012, the Center website stated that each year, about 80,000 incidents of cybercrimes are reported in South Korea; and cites a 2006 breakdown into fraud (41%), intrusion and malware (23%), online defamation (10%), illegal web content (8%), copyright violations (3%) and other crimes (15%).
[3] Examples of the Center's actions include a campaign to reduce online slander and cyber bullying in 2008 (launched in the aftermath of the suicide of an actress Choi Jin-sil),[4] a raid on Korean Google offices to investigate privacy issues concerning Google's Street View service in 2010,[5][6][7] cracking down on online discussions about bomb making in 2011,[8] and busting an illegal online gambling operation in 2012.
[1][10] The Center has numerous international connections, from Interpol to hotlines and memorandums of understandings with a number of foreign cybercrime investigations agencies.