Korea was rated as 40th least corrupt in a list of around 200 countries according to Transparency International for 2005, and was among 21 others that had improved their rating since 2004.
List of major English-speaking countries and near neighbours to Korea according to ranking and transparency index:
- New Zealand (2) - 9.6
- Australia (9) - 8.8
- United Kingdom (11) - 8.6
- Canada (14) - 8.4
- USA (17) - 7.6
- Ireland (19) - 7.4
- Japan (21) - 7.3
- Korea (40) - 5.0
- South Africa (46) - 4.5
- China (78) - 3.2
- Source: [1]
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