학원과 학습지 표준약관 개선방안 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to research the improvement plan for standardized agreement of private educational institute(hakwon) and home-school teaching material market to protect consumers and advance comsumer rights and interests. This study examines the dispute cases in cooperation with 'Korea Consumer Agency' and reviews the precedent researches and relevant laws. In addition, this study collects and analyzes the agreements of the current private educational market. Following these findings. this study suggests the improvement plan for standardized agreement of private educational institute and home-school study material market. The improvement plan for private educational institute’s standardized agreement is as follows. First, it is necessary to amend the terminologies in the standardized agreement. Second, new standardized agreement should contain these contents: compulsory information offering to the clients before the conclusion of a contract; the guidelines of training fee refund according to the recently revised act of private educational institute and consumer dispute settlement regulations. The improvement plan of home-school teaching material’s standardized agreement is as follows. First, new standardized agreement should consider 'Installment Transaction Act' and 'Door to Door Selling Act' at the same time. In addition, the standard criteria of cancelation charges and payment refunds should be reexamined. Finally, this study suggests some effective ways for using standardized agreement.