일본의 전자상거래 동향: 법과 제도를 중심으로

Abstract

Purpose: The market size of e-commerce using the internet is expanding, thanks to its inherent merit in that anyone can participate in it, regardless of time and space. In addition to this, with the development of information processing technology, the area expands in a relatively short period. However, as transactions across borders increase, the revision of laws and the maintenance of systems are needed. Recognizing this situation, this study aims to investigate the trend of e-commerce and the maintenance of laws and systems. The purpose of this study is to draw implications by assessing and analyzing how legal systems that can regulate e-commerce are maintained in a situation where legal problems are caused as new forms of transactions increase. Composition/Logic: This study examined the e-commerce trend in the fields of products, services, and digital devices and draw upon the characteristics. Further, this study examined the maintenance of the systems for the facilitation of new technologies since the 1990s. This is because most of the current laws, like civil law, have been enacted, but are not in the premise of new technologies. This study enables the interpretation of how one can legally apply the occurrence of problems as the number of e-commerce transactions across borders increase and can draw up a direction for future policies. Findings: This study found out that e-commerce has expanded, but its expansion has remained limited to certain areas. It can be interpreted that the internet is an important social overhead capital in the information society. As the number of users on the internet faces limits, it is concentrated in certain areas. Further, as the size of e-commerce has expanded, detailed items of systems have been maintained, and this in turn, has suppressed the occurrence of problems. Originality/Value: This study overcame the limitations in past studies that focused on the size of e-commerce and analyzed the situation of the maintenance of laws and systems according to the expansion of the market. Through the study, it was found that it is necessary to maintain systems in various areas in order to cope with the development of the information processing technology to expand the size of e-commerce.