one-time stalking was 30.6% and stalking for twice was 24.6%. As such, victims exposed to stalking for twice or more account for 69.4% which is more than double of the one-time damage. In terms of the type of the offender, 82.3% were acquaintances and 18.8% were strangers. Damage types were “constant or repetitive approach or tail (65.6%),” “constant or repetitive staring at or standing near the victim in routine places and regions such as home, workplace and school (47.3%),” “constant or repetitive delivery of message through phone calls, letters and computer communication channels (including SNS) or sending of a particular picture, drawing and text (43.3%).” 70. Under the current law, the act of stalking is punished according to the Punishment of Minor Offenses Act and the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc. The Punishment of Minor Offenses Act completely revised in March 2012 allows punishment of stalkers under the title of “consistent harassment” by a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand won, by misdemeanor imprisonment or by a minor fine. However, this provision has a limitation of failure to prevent stalking as it only allows criminal punishment after the damage is done and risk of a stronger secondary crime by provoking the offender due to soft punishments. Even in most cases of stalking and dating violence constituting crime of violence (Article 260), intimidation (Article 283) and intrusion upon habitation (Article 317) in the Criminal Act, victims have suffered from serious damage at the time of enforcement. 71. The Government announced its plan to build a national response system to eradicate violence against women by incorporating the “devotion to the development of three major security measures to protect the disadvantaged groups in society and removal of a blind spot (eradication of gender violence (sexual, domestic, revenge violence against women)) into 100 major national projects in 2017 in addition to the establishment of the Framework Act on Gender Violence Prevention (tentative name), reinforcement of responses to various types of gender violence through development and implementation of national action plans with particular focus on the system to punish the newly