More, on par with China. The ROK maintains a hardline conservative front, but is also the nexus of some of the largest organized crime rings in Asia, and these organizations are almost always left alone by the government as long as they give them a fair cut into business, whether it be prostitution, drugs, or weapons going abroad to Chinese or Indonesian gangs. Unlike Ukraine, no child trafficking though because Confucian moral code absolutely shows no mercy to that kind of thing, and that is why the ROK government allows them to function as well. The mob and their different regional charters are ruthless enforcers against pedophilia and communists, most especially those pesky leftist student organizations on college campuses. Whenever those college commies get brazen enough to hold rallies or protests, they almost always end with cars with tinted windows pulling up, gangs of tough men wearing sunglasses getting out of them and viciously beating the shit out of the student agitators with axe handles and steel pipes and sending a whole bunch to the hospital. Fatalities happen too. The government does not even need to get involved in these things because the mob takes care of it with ruthless efficiency. Even when local bureaucracy gets into a dispute with let's say, companies that have skimped on taxes or tried to lowball the government in any way, the officials would hire mob guys to collect what they are due and they always get their collections.
