South Korea’s socioeconomic status is high enough to support services for the protection
of crime victims. Until now, the Ministry of Justice was the only institution to protect and
support the victims, but recently the national police is included. This is considered preferable,
since the police is the one to contact the victims first- they can provide immediate support
after the incident. Several limits in current laws and crime protection system exist. Therefore,
given the importance of protecting victims, model of public-private joint forms should be
considered. In premise of establishing a new relationship between the public-private joint
system of justice and the maintenance, the range of police’s involvement with crime supports
will be determined. In the case of developed countries, the police and private organizations
maintain close cooperation, appearing as substantial care and support for crime victims.
Therefore this study reviews the problems in crime victim protection, assistance from the
police stage, and suggest the improvements as follows. The first is to redefine the role of
the police who first contacted in the crime victims protection support, the second is to
establish a permanent cooperation framework, such as victims specialized police, victims
protection agency, the third is to develop services for victim protection available from the
police stage, and the fourth, opening Victim Support Center functioning as a temporary
accommodation or safety zone for the personal protection of victims. The fifth is to
regularize solution conference for victims’ protection, and the sixth is to divide of roles in
state organization government in charge of victim’s protection and local government
responsible for victim’s support.