한국해사법정·중제제도 도입에 대한 연구

Abstract

Republic of Korea ranks the 1st in terms of volumes of ship building, the 6th in terms of ship owning tonnage and the 9th in terms of trade volume. These industries developed very sharply in Korea during past 20 years. However, the legal power of the Korea is far behind these industries. Legal disputes markets has been heavily affected by those of the UK. If the capacity of solving legal disputes does not developed along with the industries, the industry will be no longer developed. The industries may lose their competitive edge. After the author introduces the admiralty court system in Singapore, China and Hong Kong, he suggests that Korean admiralty court should be established as soon as possible. If the number of the maritime law cases are not enough to establish an admiralty court, the author supports to set up the special division for admiralty cases in several district courts in Korea. The author also suggests that special maritime arbitration system as an ad-hoc institute like SCMA in Singapore should be established. He explains that Korean Commercial Arbitration Board and Korean Maritime Arbitration Chamber can be co-existed, taking into consideration the history of SIAC and SCMA in Singapore. The author further stress that (i) Korean maritime case book should be issued as soon as possible, (ii) Law schools offering maritime law lectures should also increase, (iii) the number of maritime law professors should increase in the law school, in order to strengthen the newly suggested two systems.