"Countries with low risk of bribery" South Korea 21st, Japan 18th, North Korea at the bottom... Taiwan has the lowest risk in Asia

The "Countries with Low Bribery Risk" ranking was announced, with Japan at 18th, South Korea at 21st, and North Korea at the bottom.

The Korean National Rights Commission announced on the 26th Rand Corporation, a US think tank, and Trace (TRACE), a corporate risk management consultant, recently conducted a "2021 bribe risk matrix assessment". South Korea announced that it was "21st" among 194 countries/regions. The higher the ranking, the lower the risk of bribery.

The bribery risk matrix is an index that evaluates the "possibility of being asked for a bribe" because an entrepreneur is licensed by a public official in the relevant country when doing business in various parts of the world.

South Korea ranked 23rd in 2017, 25th in 2018, 23rd in 2019, and 22nd in 2020, rising to the highest ever for five consecutive years. In particular, this is a "low nation" with national bribery risk (very low: 18 countries, low: 35 countries, normal: 81 countries, high: 49 countries, very high: 11 countries). It was classified.

Denmark, Norway and Sweden ranked 1st to 3rd in this evaluation, and the risk of bribery was evaluated as "lowest".

In Asian countries, Taiwan ranked 15th, followed by Japan (18th) and Singapore (19th). North Korea was the lowest in 194th place.