소수주주의 권리강화를 위한 제도 개선방안 -회계장부열람청구권을 중심으로-

Abstract

The current issue about corporations deals with corporate governance, transparency of corporate business administration, outside director, protection measure against M&A, non par stock and so on. Nowadays minority shareholder right take very important role in corporations. Therefore, it happens very often that corporations confront problems with the minority shareholder right. Minority shareholder right can be neglected by the corporate directors who is not sincere. This study concentrates on analysing the situation and role of the minority shareholder right. In january 2009 the regulations about minority shareholder right of the public company are integrated in korean commercial code. They were originally in capital market regulation Act. In regard of current §§ 466, 467 korean commercial code, the regulations about minority shareholder right of sightseeing and disclosure of account books should be revised. The company is used to rejecting the request of minority shareholder for the sightseeing of company account books without reasonable reasons. When a qualified committee asks for the sightseeing of account books the company should not neglect it in the future. The current regulations have limits in this point. Therefore, it should be reformed more clearly. The minority shareholder right, especially the right for sightseeing the company account books, in short, has some problems. It should be revised clearly afterwards.