Seoul: Around 30,000 people in South Korea have been booked for sexual crimes each year for the past five years, but only a handful of them have led to formal arrests, data showed on Sunday. Between 2020 and last year, 28,000 to 35,000 cases of sexual crimes, which involved the suspect being booked, had been reported each year, according to National Police Agency data received by Rep. Chung Choon-saeng of the minor Rebuilding Korea Party. The number of those booked for such crimes came to 28,135 in 2020, 29,013 in 2021, 35,656 in 2022, 34,996 in 2023 and 31,755 last year. Of them, the proportion of suspects for whom the police sought arrest warrants ranged from 5.35 to 6.62 per cent each year. The issuance rate of arrest warrants was even slimmer, ranging from 4.02 to 5.1 per cent of the total number of cases booked, the data showed.