- Moved up 11 places, from 15th in 2019

- Results of National Cybersecurity Strategy (2019), Digital New Deal (2020), and K-Cybersecurity Strategy (2021)
- MSIT to expand support for information security, including private sector's capacity building and R&D investment



The Ministry of Science and ICT (“MSIT”; Minister Lim Hyesook) announced that Korea came in fourth out of 194 countries in the fourth edition of the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published at 1:30 pm. (KST 8:30 p.m.) on June 29 in Geneva, Switzerland.
* Top 10 countries: USA (1st), UK, Saudi Arabia (2nd), Estonia (3rd), Korea, Singapore, Spain (4th), Russia, UAE, Malaysia (5th), Lithuania (6th), Japan (7th), France (9th), India (10th)



The GCI is a biennial project of the ITU to compare and analyze cybersecurity capabilities and levels of countries.



In the K-Cybersecurity Promotion Strategy, which is part of the Digital New Deal, the government revealed its goal of becoming one of the top five nations by 2025.



The index consists of the five assessment pillars: legal, technical, organization, capacity development and cooperation. The evaluation is based on each country’s replies to 73 questions and evidential data.



This year, Korea achieved perfect scores in legal, capacity development and cooperation and did well in technical and organization.



In the third GCI published in 2019, Korea ranked 15 with a score of 87.3. This year, Korea scored 98.52, up by 11.22 from last GCI score, and ranked fourth.
* Korea ranked 13 (Score: 78.2) in 2017 and 15 (Score 87.3) in 2019.