• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.183-184
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• 2013

미국은 1960년대 초부터 제조물의 결함으로 인하여 발생한 손해에 대하여 판례나 학설을 통해 종래의 불법행위법의 범위를 확대하여 과실 계약법제가 엄격책임의 법제로 대체되어 엄격책임을 지게 하였다. 1970년대에 접어들면서 선진국들은 학설 판례에 맡기었던 제조물책임문제를 입법을 통하여 해결하고자 하였다. 즉 유럽국가들은 1985년 제조물책임에 관한 EC지침을 채택하고 1987년부터 대부분의 EU회원국들이 제조물책임법을 제정하였다. 우리나라도 제조물의 결함으로 인한 피해가 급증하면서 피해자와 직접적인 계약관계가 없는 제조자에게 계약책임을 지울 수 없다는 한계를 인식하고 피해자를 보호하기 위해 2000년에 제조물책임법을 입법하여 2002년부터 시행하였다. 동법의 핵심은 제조물책임에 관하여 과실의 유무를 묻지 않고 결함만을 책임요건으로 하는 무과실책임주의를 채택했다는 점이다.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.60-63
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• 2003

• Korea Trade Review
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.101-124
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• 2018

After the establishment of the Korean Product Liability Act, a new clause on the burden of proof has been added and is being revised to meet the purpose of consumer protection. Article 3(2) of the new clause stipulates a provision for estimating a causal relationship when proving indirect facts to alleviate burden of proof. While consumer rights are increasing and public attention is drawn to consumer issues, problems are still emerging. In order to solve the problem, the U.S. Product Liability Act, which has strong consumer rights, was examined to describe the direction in which Korea's Product Liability Act should proceed in terms of consumer protection. The results of the comparative analysis show that the US has expanded the concept of strict liability in terms of rigorous liability, consumer dispute resolution, provable possibility, and litigation accessibility, The consumer dispute settlement system has thoroughly protected consumers by operating educational and systemic consumer ADR system. As for the possibility of proving, Korea has three provenances, and the United States has one. In the United States, where consumer lawsuits are frequent, lawsuits are more accessible than those in Korea, where the party responsible for proving is turned into a manufacturer and responsible for proving the case. This study focuses on consumer protection and provides implications for Korean product liability law.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1-9
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• 2005

Soil is polluted by an agricultural chemicals, the effluence of a crystal and sewage sludge, illegal discharging of waste water or waste matter and so on. Soil pollution that accompanies a groundwater and the crops contamination has a large effect on people's living. By polluters pay principle, when a soil was polluted, polluters take the responsibility of clean-up and compensation for damages. The character of the responsibility is a strict liability. When joint polluters exist in a soil pollution, they bear collective responsibility. But they are exempted from obligation in case of a natural calamity and war. The polluters who are poor contribution of pollution take a partition responsibility but it is not easy to prove that. The concerned parties of purification liability in a soil pollution are polluter, an owner or occupant of a contaminated site, and a grantee. But when we do not appoint the polluter or he cannot do a cleanup, municipal must put in effect the purification. In such a case, another parties who are related to the contamination should take upon themselves a liability. The province of responsible parties, therefore, is required to extend to an owner or operator of a facility, a carrier and lender.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.43-47
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• 2003

현대 과학기술의 발달과 더불어 생산되는 제품들은 점차 고도화·복잡화되고, 제품의 결함 또는 제품으로 인한 사고 원인을 소비자 스스로 밝혀내는 것이 거의 불가능하게 되었다. 따라서 제조물의 안전에 대한 우선적인 입증책임을 기업에게 요구하는 제조물책임법이 선진국에서 시행되었고, 최근 소비자의 권익 보호제도 확충으로 제조물에 대한 책임이 엄격화, 광범위화 되었으며, 유럽연합과 일본의 제조물책임법을 근간으로 제정한 국내의 제조물책임법이 2002년 7월 시행되었다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.169-170
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• 2017

우리나라의 이사의 책임은 엄격하다. 따라서 이사가 막대한 손해배상책임에 직면하게 될 수도 있다는 불안감 때문에 이사 취임을 꺼리게 된다. 그로 인하여 회사는 유능한 경영인 영입에 어려움이 따르고 이사의 경영활동이 위축될 수 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 이사의 책임을 완화시킬 수 있는 독일의 입법례처럼 경영판단의 원칙을 법제화할 필요가 있으며 임원배상책임보험을 활성화 하여야 한다.

• THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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• v.66
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• pp.119-148
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• 2015

Generally, the liability for breach is defined as the civil liability that arises from the conduct of violation of a contract. There are two notable principles governing liability for breach that have fundamental impacts on the unified Contract Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter Chinese Contract Law) in the remedies. In China, during the drafting of the Contract Law, there was a great debate as to whether damages for breach of contract ought to follow the fault principle or to follow the strict liability principle. Ultimately the Chinese Contract Law follows the model of the CISG on this point, namely, it follows the strict liability principle (article 107) with an exemption cause of force majeure. Under Chinese Contract Law, it is interpreted as strict liability in principle. Strict Liability is a notion introduced into Chinese Contract Law from the Anglo-Saxon Law. The strict liability or no fault doctrine, on the contrary, allows a party to claim damages if the other party fails to fulfill his contractual obligations regardless of the fault of the failing party. Pursuant to the strict liability doctrine, if the performance of a contract is due, any non-performance will constitute a breach and the fault on the party in breach is irrelevant. This paper reviews problems of legal character or legal ground of contractual liability in Chinese contract law. Specifically, focusing on the interpretation of Chinese contract law sections and analysis of three cases related contractual liability in freight agency, the paper proposes some implications of structural features of Chinese contract law and international commercial transactions.

• The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.177-213
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• 2011

The purpose of this paper is to research on the liability and cases for space damage with reference to the space activity under the international space treaty and national space law of major countries. The United Nations has adopted two treaties relating to the liability for space damage as follows: the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and the Liability Convention of 1972. Korea has enacted the Outer Space Damage Compensation Act of 2008 relating to the liability for space damages. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 regulates the international responsibility for national activities in outer space, and the national tort liability for damage by space launching object. The Liability Convention of 1972 regulates the absolute liability by a launching state, the faulty liability by a launching state, the joint and several liability by a launching state, the person claiming for compensation, the claim method for compensation, the claim period of compensation, the claim for compensation and local remedy, the compensation amount for damage by a launching state, and the establishment of the Claims Commission. The Outer Space Damage Compensation Act of 2008 in Korea regulates the definition of space damage, the relation of the Outer Space Damage Compensation Act and the international treaty, the non-faulty liability for damage by a launching person, the concentration of liability and recourse by a launching person, the exclusion of application of the Product Liability Act, the limit amount of the liability for damage by a launching person, the cover of the liability insurance by a launching person, the measures and assistance by the government in case of occurring the space damage, and the exercise period of the claim right of compensation for damage. There are several cases with reference to the liability for damage caused by space accidents as follows: the Collision between Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251, the Disintegration of Cosmos 954 over Canadian Territory, the Failure of Satellite Launching by Martin Marietta, and the Malfunctioning of Westar VI Satellite. In the disputes and lawsuits due to such space accidents, the problems relating to the liability for space damage have been settled by the application of absolute(strict) liability principle or faulty liability principle. The Liability Convention of 1972 should be improved as follows: the clear definition in respect of the claimer of compensation for damage, the measure in respect of the enforcement of decision by the Claims Commission. The Outer Space Damage Compensation Act of 2008 in Korea should be improved as follows: the inclusion of indirect damage into the definition of space damage, the change of the currency unit of the limit amount of liability for damage, the establishment of joint and several liability and recourse right for damage by space joint launching person, and the establishment of the Space Damage Compensation Review Commission. Korea has built the space center at Oinarodo, Goheung Province in June 2009. Korea has launched the first small launch vehicle KSLV-1 at the Naro Space Center in August 2009 and June 2010. In Korea, it will be the possibility to be occurred the problems relating to the international responsibility and the liability for space damage in the course of space activity. Accordingly the Korean government and launching organization should make the legal and systematic policy to cope with such problems.

• Journal of Korean Electronics
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.10-13
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• 2005

국내외에서 환경규제가 엄격해지면서 환경이 기업경영의 덕목으로 자리 잡고 있다. 국내전자업체들의 경제적 성과중시의 환경경영과 사회적 책임을 강조하는 지속 가능경영(Sustainability Management)를 점검해본다.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.259-280
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• 1998

최근 제품으로 인한 각종 피해에 대해 피해자 구제의 견지에서 피해자가 간편하고도 용이하게 손해배상 청구를 할 수 있도록 피해입증부담을 경감하고, 제조업자를 포함한 제품공급자측에 보다 엄격한 책임을 물을 수 있도록 규정한 '제조물 책임(product liability: PL)'에 대한 법률이 필요하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 PL과 보험간의 관계를 고찰하여 우리 나라의 최근동향 및 대응방안을 살펴보는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 미국에서는 손해보험회사의 급격한 수익악화로 인하여 각 사가 일제히 기존의 보험계약 인수를 거절하여 보험요율과 보험료를 대폭적으로 인상하여 기업들이 배상책임보험을 부보할 수 없는, 소위 '보험위기'라는 상황을 경험하고 있다. 과거 두 번에 걸친 심각한 보험위기의 교훈으로 미국에서 세 번째의 보험위기의 발생유무는 제2차 보험 위기의 원인이었던 미국의 불법행위법 불법행위제도의 개혁여부에 달려 있다고 할 수 있다. 한편 우리 나라에서는 제조물에 대해 피해자 구제를 규율하는 PL법이 제정되어 있지 않다. 향후에 우리 나라가 PL법을 제정하여 실시할 경우에는 미국과 같은 혼란된 상태에 빠지는 문제가 발생하지 않도록 주의를 기울여야 할 것이다. 또한, 피해자 구제와 기업이 안전 제품의 생산에 자극을 줄 수 있도록, 조속한 시일 내에 우리나라에도 PL법을 제정해야 할 것으로 생각된다.