안전 기반의 국민행복시대 실현을 위한 신변보호업 육성

Abstract

After Park Geunhye's government that advocated safety based people's happiness age officially launched, it has concentrated on building safe society. As modern society becomes industrialized and urbanized, crimes get more deliberate, diverse and ferocious and various social pathology phenomena have increased. An interest in personal protection is related to occurrence of ferocious crime, fear of crime, social recognition and instinctive individual protective measure. Various dangers led people to have more interest in safety, ask for high level of public order and protection of personal safety. Changes in public order environment and demand for personal protection made private security industry grow remarkably. ‘Personal protection industry’ which is called also private security industry in Korea was introduced in 1995 by revision of private security industry act. There are more than five hundred private security businesses licensed. However, there are many problems to be solved which are concerned with social image, market environment, response of industry and laws. The purpose of this study is to examine problems of personal protection industry, which has various problems internally and is to present ways to nurture personal protection industry. Ways to nurture personal protection industry include creation of successful business model, renovation of image of personal protection industry, solution of management problems, enhancement of safety consciousness by citizens and clients, improvement of expertise of personal protection businesses and their employees through strengthening of training and qualification system and improvement of relevant legislative system, cooperation with scholarship, improvement of supervision by authorities and expansion of partnership.