• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.1179-1206
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• 2018

Korea has entered into a post-industrial era with the Constitution of the industrial age, which defines 'science technology' as a means for national economic development. For Constitutional amendment for the new era, it is necessary to identify the "inertia of the industrial age" adhered to the Constitution. To this end, I analyzed the Constitution concerning 'science-technology' with comparative legal study and diachronic approach. The "inertia of the industrialization age" implied by the Constitution is as follows. First, it is constriction of 'science and technology'. In the Constitution, science is subordinate to technology, technology is limited to science. Second, it marks 'science and technology' as a means for economic development. Third, 'innovation' in Article 127 is still conceived as 'development or promotion'. The 'science' must be liberated from the means for industrial technology, and the 'technology' must be convergent with diversity and creativity. In addition, a constitutional provision acknowledging various influences of science and technology other than economic development is required, which means constitutional declaration of 'science and technology state principle'. Finally, in the era of so-called 'the Fourth Industrial Revolution', the Korean national innovation system(KNIS) should be re-established within the framework of the Constitution. In the post-industrial era, the pursuit of technological innovation system should based on individual freedom and creativity to the best in all areas of science, technology, politics, economy, society and culture. Therefore, renaissance of Article 5 of the constitutional Constitution is required for the KNIS, which had made 'Creativity' the basic character of the state along with 'Liberty and Equality'.

• The Journal of Korean Philosophical History
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• no.56
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• pp.47-80
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• 2018

The traditional laws of Korea have undergone various stages of development over time. This includes the voluntary standards of the clean society. Korea's traditional legal systems, ranging from those of the Goryeo(高麗) to those of the Republic of Korea, have taken Confucian Phiosophy as their major ideological bases. At the center of these Confucian ideals, particularly in regards to pre-Qin Confucian Philosophy(先秦儒家思想) from where these ideals originated, lie the core ideals which emphasize the responsibility of each individual regardless of the social status(正名), the needs for a democracy in which people are empower and guide the state(民本), the importance of reigning with benevolence, moral excellence, and rite (仁義), and the differential love centered on kinship and humanity(親親愛人). These were the ideas as set forth by Confucius(孔子), Mencius(孟子) and Xun Zi(荀子). The current laws of Korea, especially in regards to the Constitution and the Civil and Criminal Laws, include a number of provisions that contain the Confucian Ideas of Law. The Constitution, in particular, which is also supported by the judgement of the Constitution Court, reflects several core Confucian ideals including filial duty (孝) and respect for ascendants and the traditional culture. The Court also suggested the two important standards of the constitutional legitimacy of the Traditional Culture. One is 'Age Compatibility (時代 適合性)', the other is 'Manifested Universally Validity(現在的 普遍妥當性)'. So we have burdened with the reestablishment of the Universal Ethics of the Confucian Ideology.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.3-18
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• 2012

Constitutional issue of economic order has fiercely been disputed around the world and through the ages. In Korea, there also has been endless argument on to what extent the government should intervene in the economy through regulation. Article 119 of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea has its basis on the principle of free market economy, exceptionally allowing the government to intervene and coordinate in certain situations. The Constitution empowers the government with the authority of regulation and coordination to execute the Constitutional value of guaranteeing and securing fundamental human rights. Therefore, the government, as a fair and just mediator, should perform its mission to democratize the economy as well as secure market freedom and creative initiative.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.3-29
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• 2018

By examining care from a normative perspective projected in the Constitution of South Korea, this paper attempts to assess care from the standpoint of justice and establish the status of care as a concrete political value. The point that this paper focuses on in the Constitution is about the "human worth and dignity" and "right to pursue happiness" clauses of the Article 10 at the beginning of Chapter II which defines the rights and duties of citizens. The clauses of "human worth and dignity" and the "right to pursue happiness" are generally interpreted as the highest values of the constitutional order. While exploring the human dignity and the pursuit of happiness clauses in light of care, this paper intends to address the value of care as human dignity, which is the highest ideology and constitutional principle of the Constitution and, at the same time, the limitation of explaining the freedom to care with a liberal concept of freedom implied in the pursuit of happiness. Ultimately, this paper argues for the justification of putting 'care' in the Constitution. In the end, this paper aims to emphasize the significance of care as a guiding principle for the maintenance of our lives and society, a primary principle of social regulation and public governance, and a direction for a just state which can identify and rectify care injustices.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.395-423
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to investigate the various contents of legal life's conflicts and constitutional applications by analysing on the constitutional judicial precedents regarding to social welfare law. The total cases of constitutional precedents are 62 totally, and 22 precedents among 62 are analysed through content analysis. These 22 constitutional precedents consist of nine cases of concerning Social Insurance Act, six cases in National Pension Act, two cases in National Basic Livelihood Protection Act and one cases in Social Welfare and Service Act. The major contents of these precedents are regarding to operational principles of social insurance system, rule of entitlements, benefits, social welfare organizations and the constitutional right such as property right, equal right, right of happiness. And also there are precedents to review how the rule of Act is interpreted or how the process of right protection is. Findings in this study show that Korean Constitutional Law has characteristics of welfare nationalism and social capital economics orientations, and sanctions legislation and administration discretion.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.111-135
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• 2018

A vision and a medium-to-long-term master plan are key factors for the Constitutional Court Library to improve users' access to legal information and provide better legal information services as the leading public law library in Korea in 2019. For this point, it is a priority task to set a vision and goals and to identify the core values of Constitutional Court Library. In this study, the four core values of the Constitutional Court Library identified through the analysis of the library's internal and external environment, the analysis of the core values of similar institutions. The four core values derived from the study are Expertise, Communication & Universality, Cooperation, and Innovation, and when these values are reflected in library operation, system and policy, the Constitutional Court Library is expected to further solidify its position as the nation's top law library.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.3-39
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• 2019

Even after the Constitutional Court decided on August 23, 2012 that the provisions of abortion were constitutional, discussions on the abolition of abortion continued. The controversy about abortion is not only happening recently, but it has already existed since the time when the Penal Code was enacted, and it shares the history of modern legislation with the Republic of Korea. Legislators whom submitted amendment while insisting upon the eradication of abortion in the process of enacting criminal law at that time, presented social and economic adaptation reasons as the core reason. From then on, the abolition of abortion has been discussed during the development dictatorship, but this was not intended to guarantee women's human rights, but it was closely connected to the national policy projects of "Contraception" and "Family Planning" of the Park's dictatorship. Since then, the enactment of the Mother and Child Health Law, which restrictively allow artificial abortion, was held on February 8, 1973, in an emergency cabinet meeting that replaced the legislative power after the National Assembly was disbanded. It became effected May 10th. The reason behind the Mother and Child Health Law that included legalization of abortion in part was that the Revitalizing Reform at that time did not allow any opinion, so it seem to be it was difficult for the religious to express opposition. The "Maternal and Child Health Law" enacted in this way has been maintained through several amendments. It can be seen that the question of maintenance of abortion has been running on parallel lines without any significant difference from the time when the Penal Code was enacted. On August 23, 2012, the Constitutional Court decided that the Constitutional Opinion and the unonstitutional Opinion were 4: 4. However, it was decided by the Constitution without satisfying the quorum for unconstitutional decision of the Constitutional Court. This argument about abolition of abortion is settled for the the time being with the decision of the constitutional inconsistency of the Constitutional Court, and now, the National Assembly bears the issue of new legislation. In other words, the improved legislation must be executed until December 31, 2020, and if the previous improved legislation is not implemented, the crime of abortion (Article 269, Paragraph 1, Article 270 of the Criminal Code) Article 1 (1) will cease to be effective from 1 January 2021. Therefore, in the following, we will look into the reason of the Constitutional Court's constitutional discordance adjudication on criminal abortion(II), and how it structurally differs from the previous Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court. After considering key issues arised from the constitutional discordance adjudication(III), the legislative direction and within the scope of legislative discretion in accordance with the criteria presented by the Constitutional Court We reviewed the proposed revisions to the Penal Code and the Mather and Child Health Act of Korea(IV).

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.315-316
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• 2010

디지털 방송시대에 새롭게 등장하는 다양한 방송수신메체를 통해 이제 방송 수신은 TV뿐만 아니라 PC, DMB 수신기, DMB 수신이 가능한 휴대폰, PDA, 네비게이션 등 다양한 방식으로 확대되었다. 이러한 방송환경의 변화는 그간 우리 방송법에 따라, 우리나라 공영방송의 주요 제작재원 및 운영자금으로 부과되어 온 방송수신료에 대한 새로운 해석을 요한다. 그럼에도 2008년 우리 헌법재판소는 일부 국민이 제기한 수신료 부과처분에 대한 헌법소원심판에서 새로운 방송수신 매체를 통해 방송을 수신할 수 있음에도 불구, TV수상기 소지자에게만 방송수신료를 부과하는 현 방식이 평등의 원칙에 반하는 것이 아니라고 주장하며, 일부 국민의 청구를 기각하였다. 이 논문은 공영방송의 기능과 방송수신료의 헌법적 의미에 비추어 볼 때, 새로운 수신 매체에 대한 수신료 부과와 관련한 위의 헌법재판소 결정례는 방송수신료의 법적 성격에만 집착한 나머지 방송수신료의 헌법적 의미에 관하여 진지한 질문과 대답이 결여되어 있고, 새로운 방송수신매체간의 차이점에 대한 세심한 분석을 결하였으며, 이론적으로는 수신료를 부가하는 것이 타당한 매체까지도 면제대상에 포함시킨 시행령을 너무 쉽게 정당한 것으로 인정하고 정책적 측면에서 면제할 필요성의 검토를 소홀히 하였다. 나아가 새로운 방송수신 매체 중 방송수신 기능이 부가적이더라도, 부가적인 한도에서 제한적으로 수신료를 지불하는 것에 대하여 검토했더라면 더욱 설득력 있는 결정이 되었을 것이라고 비판하였다.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.47
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• pp.27-51
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• 2017

This paper considers opposition between lawyers to defend human rights which the Pacific Constitution of Japan guarantees and the public power represented by the prosecution's judicial power centered on sentencing in the 'Chatterley Trial' that was a Japanese representative literary trial which occurred after World War II. The lawyers' assertion is against the public power which reminds us of the Press Act before the war defeat. Although censorship is banned in the constitution, and it can be said that it is not a dimension just to protest the check of custom but the struggle not to reenact the past Japan.

• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.171-195
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• 2011

2007년 일본최고 재판소는 히로시마시 폭주족 추방조례사건에 대하여 헌법판단 회피의 이론에 입각한 합헌적 한정해석론에 따라 합헌결정 판결을 내렸다. 이는 기존의 판결내용을 답습한 것에 불과 하였지만 합헌적 한정해석이라는 헌법해석의 방법론에 관한 의미를 한번 되새기는 계기가 된 사건이다. 이 법리에 의한 것으로는 1980년대의 청소년보호조례사건이 유명하다. 이 두 사건은 하나는 공안사건이고 다른 하나는 풍속에 관한 사건이라는 점에서 차이가 있다. 폭주족 추방조례사건은 합헌적 한정해석의 법리가 적용될 여지가 있다고 보이지만 청소년보호조례사건과 같은 풍속에 관한 사건에서는 이 법리를 적용하는 것은 무리라고 생각된다. 왜냐하면 청소년보호조례사건에서는 음행, 난잡한 성행위라는 너무나 막연하고 애매한 개념을 사용하고 있어 형사절차에서의 대 원칙인 죄형법정주의에 위배될 소지가 있으며 성적 자기결정의 자유를 규제할 때에는 이에 따른 필연적인 이유가 존재해야 함에도 그렇지 못하다는 문제점과 일반국민에게 지나친 심리적 위축을 초래할 수 있다는 점에서 위헌논란이 제기되었다. 그럼에도 일본 최고재판소는 이를 합헌적 한정해석의 법리를 원용하여 위헌선언하기를 꺼려온 바 이는 헌법판단회피를 의도적으로 하는 것으로 지나친 사법소극주의적 태도라고 하지 않을 수 없다. 법원은 사건의 중대성이나 위헌상태의 정도 그 파급효과의 범위, 구체적 사건에서 문제가 되고 있는 권리의 성질등을 종합적으로 고려해서 충분히 이유가 있다고 판단되는 경우에는 헌법판단회피의 준칙에 따르지 않아야 하며 헌법판단을 적극적으로 할 수 있다고 해석하는 것이 타당하다고 생각된다.