온라인게임 이용자보호와 약관규제

Abstract

The on-line game Industry has been emerging as one of the new motive powers for the economic growth in this country. The more people enjoy the on-line games, however, the more harmful influences of the game are exerted on the society. Thereby the government authorities concerned have established various policies not only to promote the industry, but also regulate bad effects from the game. One of the main governmental policies on the on-line game nowadays is about how to protect game users or consumers especially from the unfair adhesion contracts. And lots of the adhesion contracts for using online game have been confirmed to be unfair by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, and remarkable decisions of the court on them have been handed down. In this circumstances, this paper reviews the consumer protection issues and judicial cases and the unfair adhesion contracts of the online on which corrective measures has been imposed by the KFTC. Upon this analysis, it tries to present some jurisprudence of protection of the online game user and direction to construct current legal provisions related.