President Park Geun-hye says the task of building a country safe from cybercrimes is becoming increasingly important amid a continued surge in such offenses that infringe on personal and corporate interests.
 
The president made the remark on Wednesday through a video message sent to a ceremony in Seoul marking the nation’s fifth Information Security Day.
 
She said various risk factors that had existed only within cyberspace are now spreading to industrial fields and affecting the daily lives of citizens.
 
Park stressed the need to strengthen society’s overall cyber response system and information protection capability. She added that through active investment and fostering of experts, a new security market must be created to nurture information security industries and turn them into next-generation growth engines.