• 무역상무연구
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• 제20권
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• pp.83-112
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• 2003

This study primarily concerns the Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002, focusing on the newly amended rules of the Sale of Goods Act(1979). It describes and analyzes the provisions of Regulations 2002 in a comparative way in order to provide legal advice to the sellers who plans to enter into English consumer markets. It also attempts to compare the rules of Regulations 2002 with those of CISG and to evaluate them in light of the discipline of Law and Economics the basic question of which is whether a solution from one jurisdiction may enhence 'efficiency', serving the goal of reducing negotiation costs through providing a set of default terms, and through imposing an efficient solution which may assist value maximizing exchange where disputes arise.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.87-112
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• 2017

This study analyzes patenting practices in the pharmaceutical industry and the impacts of sequential innovation. The main argument of the research is that strategic patenting is common in the pharmaceutical sector and it is legal within the context of patent law. However, when these practices have negative effects on the competition process post-grant, the practices that are legal under patent law may come into conflict with antitrust laws, which are not applied. The study brings into question whether sequential patenting practices characteristic of the pharmaceutical industry encourage or discourage innovation, and moreover, the overall functionality of the patent system. Ultimately, the functionality of the patent system creates market incentives that neglect consumer, i.e., patient, welfare; potential solutions to deal with the shortcomings are discussed.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.85-98
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• 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) shopping environment can provide benefits and risks to consumers, including shopping convenience and invasion of consumer rights, respectively. We experimentally tested whether exposure to information regarding the benefits and risks of IoT shopping would elicit changes to consumer perceptions of the importance of shopping convenience and rights to information, as well as shopping intention among young online shopping consumers. The participants (N=218) were randomly assigned into one of two experimental conditions. The control group was exposed to a news article and a video emphasizing the shopping convenience of the Amazon Dash Button service, while the experimental group was exposed to the same news article and video provided to the control group, along with a news article about the judgment of the Munich court that the Dash Button violates German consumer law. We found an interaction effect of experimental condition and time on changes to the perceived importance of shopping convenience and shopping intention. The changes to the perceived relative importance of shopping convenience to consumer rights to information from pre- to post-manipulation differed significantly between the two experimental groups. The results of this study emphasize the importance of providing information on both the benefits and risks of IoT shopping. This was the first experimental study to examine the possibility of the invasion of consumer rights to information in the IoT shopping environment. This study urges researchers, marketers, and policy makers to focus more on consumer rights to information in the newly coming IoT shopping environment.

• 산학경영연구
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• 제13권
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• pp.207-221
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• 2000

신기술에 의한 체제정비가 요구되는 시점에서 1999년 채택된 미국 통일전자거래법은 우리나라에 주는 시사점이 크다. 통일전자거래법은 개인간의 거래에서의 지침에 중점을 두는 반면 우리나라의 전자거래기본법과 전자서명법은 정부의 역할을 중시한 것이 특징이다. 통일전자거래법에는 우리나라와 동일하게 전자기록, 전자서명등에 대한 정의가 있고 자동화된 거래, 컴퓨터 프로그램, 전자대리인, 정보, 정보처리시스템, 보안절차등 우리나라에 없는 정의가 들어 있다. 제16조에서 규정하는 양도가능한 기록(Transferable Record)도 우리나라에 없는 특이한 개념이다. 여기서 명시하고 있는 전자어음은 법제정이 있기도 진에 우리나라에 도입하려고 하는 개념으로 금융산업의 지각변동을 예고하는 조항이기도 하다. 우리나라는 사이버몰, 인증기관을 강조하고 소비자의 보호지침을 도입한 것이 미국과 다른 특징이다. 미국의 경우는 각종 분쟁의 경우 법원의 해석을 강조하여 전통적인 사법부우위의 모습을 보여주고 있다. 향후 예상되는 각종 분쟁에 대한 미국의 판례연구는 한국에서도 신속하게 연구되어 적용되어야 할 분야라 하겠다.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.655-665
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• 2015

This study classified respondents by food-lifestyle and investigated differences in diet-related attitudes and demographic variables among food-lifestyle groups. Diet-related attitudes consisted of variables such as interest in diet, trial number of diet, diet period, weight loss, diet motivation, verification of products approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, verification of manufacturer's reliability, examination of damage cases and side effects, and awareness of consumer protection law. This study administered a questionnaire survey to adults between the ages of 20 and 39 who lived in Daegu and Uijeongbu from November 17th to December 14th 2014. Data collected from 293 respondents were analyzed using descriptive statistics, factor analyses, cluster analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and chi-square tests. Four clusters (passive eating habit group, active eating habit group, convenience oriented group, and taste and health oriented group) were developed according to four factors of food-lifestyle (health-conscious, popularity-seeking, taste-seeking, convenience-seeking). The results of the ANOVA and chi-square tests indicated significant differences in interest in diet, awareness of consumer protection law, verification of products approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, verification of manufacturer's reliability, examination of damage cases and side effects, gender, education levels and household monthly income levels among food-lifestyle groups.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.137-160
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• 2021

The customized cosmetics preparation management qualification system was implemented in March 2020, and it served to create jobs by developing professionals and vitalizing the cosmetics business. However, various problems such as high examination fees, suitability of questions, and utilization in industries are emerging. This paper attempts to prevent disputes that the system can cause and suggest ways to improve it by researching customized cosmetics, the industry status, and comparing foreign cosmetics laws. There is a kind of opinion that laws should be eased for this industry and the other opinion that expertise is necessary in this field because of safety. The system now has adverse effects due to a failure to adjust the difficulty of the exam. Cosmetics are not prescription-based, so they are routinely used. However, some toxic ingredients can cause side effects if they do not conform with certain standards. Also, it is difficult for a case to lead to lawsuits because most consumer damages related to cosmetics are individual. In addition, as e-commerce develops, there is a growing possibility of seeing more consumer damages. If safety and distribution issues, which experts are concerned about, escalate, the private dispute settlement system (among the ADR systems) should be activated as a resolution method.

• 의료법학
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.227-261
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• 2015

협동조합은 조합원의 권익을 향상시키고 지역사회에 공헌하는 것을 목적으로 만들어진 조직을 의미하는 것으로 실제로 지역사회에 많은 기여를 하고 있다. 그리고 이중에서 특히 소비자들이 상부상조의 정신에 입각하여 공동의 복리향상을 도모하기 위하여 자발적으로 설립한 조직이 소비자생활협동조합이다. 한편, 의료법에 의하면 비영리법인에게 의료기관을 개설할 자격을 부여하고 있으므로 소비자생활협동조합이나 협동조합기본법에 따라 설립된 비영리법인인 협동조합은 의료기관을 개설할 자격이 있다. 그런데 애초 사회적 약자인 구성원들의 공동의 이익을 위해 조직되어야 할 협동조합이 의료기관 개설자격을 부여받기 위한 탈법적인 수단으로 악용되는 사례가 증가하였다. 특히 국민건강보험공단이 의료법상 의료기관을 개설할 수 없는 자가 의료인을 고용하여 의료기관을 개설하는 이른바 사무장병원에 대한 조사와 부당이득징수가 강화되자, 이에 따른 우회적인 회피수단으로 의료협동조합을 설립하여 의료기관을 개설하는 수가 급증하였다. 따라서 본 고에서는 우선 의료협동조합의 개설을 규율하고 있는 이원화된 현행 규범체계를 소개하고, 이를 통해 상대적으로 취약한 부분 내지 제도개선이 이루어져야 할 부분을 살펴보고자 한다. 그리고 의료협동조합의 개설 운영, 폐업 현황 및 법령위반 내용 등을 체적으로 확인함으로써 현행 의료협동조합개설 운영에 대한 규범적 제도적 개선방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2015

Purpose - In this study, corporate social responsibility activities as perceived by customers visiting super-centers and the influence of the authenticity of such social responsibility activities on trust have been examined while attempting to verify how trust would influence consumers' attitude and purchase intention. Research design, data, and methodology - For data collection, a questionnaire survey has been conducted on 200 consumers who would visit super-centers, and 161 effective samples have been used for the final analysis. Methodologies such as Cronbach's α, factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equation modeling were used. Results - Among corporate social responsibility activities, legal responsibility in particular has turned out to influence consumers rather greatly. Thus, law observance has turned out to be a necessity rather than merely an economic or ethical responsibility; as for trust, trust in the product has turned out to exert more influence on consumers than trust in the enterprise. Conclusions - Corporate social responsibility activities can mean that the complete fulfillment of natural and proper corporate responsibility will secure consumer trust, thus influencing consumer attitude and purchase intention positively.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.53-80
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• 2014

This article focuses on the Active Plan for Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR) in financial Dispute. The financial consumers of Korea had suffered greatly from the IMF in 1997 and the global financial crisis in 2008, which also increased financial conflicts significantly. In particular, active financial transaction, due to the development of computer and financial techniques causes frequent consumer financial conflicts. It is beneficial to settle them for judicial economy through an alternative conflict arbitration system instead of lawsuit at the court. Many advanced countries settle financial conflicts through various ADR in their numerous financial conflicts. In the settlement of financial conflict, the ADR system, covering mediation and arbitration, is useful and appropriate. Each governmental institution has various conflict settlement organizations, and it is necessary to operate them effectively. In order to settle financial conflicts properly, it is necessary to study law on financial consumer protection, and it is also necessary to understand practical custom and practical knowledge and to systematize them. Further, it is important to manage financial conflict-related data, to accumulate professional experiences, and to prepare a financial conflict settlement system in order to introduce financial education earlier to the whole nation.

• 의료법학
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.271-310
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• 2006

In the situation of bringing out of social problem about the medical accident and medical dispute, from 1988 the enactment activity for a legislative bill on conciliation of dispute has promoted, a legislative bill on prevention and relief of medical accident was again proposed in December, 2005. This bill has been faced rough going in review process of National Assembly. Because the purpose of this legislative bill is the conciliation of interest of between medical service consumer and medical service supplier, an item of issues of law is no-fault compensation scheme. However, as no-fault compensation scheme runs counter to the principle liability with fault in our civil law, as expected, whether the inducement is valid or, if induced, the problem is not must be totally reviewed. First of all, the general of principle liability without fault and especially the medical system in foreign countries are reviewed, by reviewing an issue and the pros and cons of the inducement of no-fault compensation scheme, this article draws the conclusion. After all, considering that the necessity adapting Gefahrdungschftung in medical accident as much as other industrial fields exists, the many provisions of the principle liability without fault exists in civil law and special law of our law system, and no-fault compensation scheme let legislative purpose be, to what extent, achieved by conciliating patient and doctor, the inducement of principle liability without fault in medical field is reasonable in the aspect of politic and legal system.