韓國 商法에 있어서의 英美 會社法의 繼受에 관한 硏究 = Influences of the Anglo-American Legal Traditions on the Korean Commercial Law
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姜渭斗 (法經大學)
발행기관
학술지명
권호사항
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1979
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Prior to 1962, Korean business corporations were provisionally regulated by the old Commercial Law which the Japanese Government had enacted before 1945. With the liberation in 1945 the new independent Korean war and the ensuing political and social disorders delayed the formation of the Korean Commercial Law. The Korean Government formulated the new Commercial Law, and with the National Assembly's approval of the law promulgated it on 20 January 1962. The law formally took effect on 1 January 1963.
The provisions of the old Commercial Law governing the business corporations have their basic edeas on the spirit of " Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch". The edeology of the law came from the early capitalism thoughts whose theoretical base was mainly for the protection of the private property rights. Therefore business corporations under the law could not legally accept the idea of "the separation of the ownership from the management of the enterprise." In fact, economic developments of Korea were the goal aimed at in enactment of the new Commercial Law.
The leading factors primarily considered centered on raising the necessary capitals, encouraging the private business investments, facilitating the introduction of foreign capital loans into the nation as well as preparing the organs of business corporation for effective managements. Particularly, these organs were to be so institutionalized as to help the professional business administrators to play to the best of their managing skills. These requirements were expected to be fulfilled not under the business corporation laws of the continental legal systems, but under the Anglo-American ones.
The new Commercial Law, though founded on the continental legal systems, is so made as to adapt itself to the social economic situation of the Korea of the early 1960's. It can be said that Korea's newly enacted Commercial Law, which regulates the activities of business corporations, is a product of a Commercial Law, which regulates the activities of business corporations, is a product of a Compromise between the German and the Anglo-American law systems related to them. Such provisions as the non-par value stock, cumulative vote, and option right are excluded from the law, because the actual situations did not allow their inclusion in the law. However, the original principles of both the authorized capital and the board of directors are accepted, though some revisions are made to be fit for our social economic conditions.
The important principles of our Commercial Law influenced by the Anglo-American legal systems are as follows ; authorized capital, convertible share, redeemable share, non-voting share, and issue of shares at a discount to improve the capital mechanism, ⅱ) board of directors as well as the reduction of authorities on the stockholders' meeting and the auditor aimed at the effective management, ⅲ) injunction, representative suit, the rights of inspection access to books and papers to strengthen the rights of stockholders.
Unlike the "Prinzip des festen Grundkapitals", authorized capital principle under the Anglo-American countries bases itself on the "Kons truktionstheorie" under which a business corporation can be founded after the subscriptions to one more stocks by each promotor. In the modern business circles, operations are carried with stresses obviously on promoting the profits rather than on maintaining the satable assets. Because of convenient and prompt capital raising through easily set-up business corporations and effective management of them, the strict application of the "Prinzip des festen Grundkapitals" is sometimes neglected. To meet the economic needs, the "Prinzip des festen Grundkapitals" itself should not be strict. Therefore, the provisions of the Korean Commercial Law compromise to give birth to the principle of authorized capital with the "Prinzid des festen Grundkapitals as follows: " One half of total stocks shall be issued by the corporation at the time of its foundation, and the rest of them will be issued by the board of directors in compliance with the financial need at any time".
The board of directors under the old Commercial Law was only a suborgan of the stockholder's meeting, and implemented the decisions made by the stockholders' meeting. The auditor supervised the financial and operational managements. Both were on the same level in the organization chart. This type of organization can be said proper from the sense of "checks and balances of power" originating from the modern democratic ideology, though it can hardly be so with the big businesses. Because of the powers of raising capital endowed to the directors through the provisions of the authorized capital system under the new Commercial Law, the director's business executions should be performed deliberately. That is the reason why the board of directors instead of the independent single director system was preferred.
Under the new Law, the relations between the business corporation and the directors are of delegation of authority. The directors bear the burdens of carrying out the duties carefully as able managers. In the Anglo-American countries, the board of directors system has been developed on the ground of the fiduciary relations between them. Their prime obligation is the duty of loyalty.
On the other hand, Korea's new Law not only adopts the authorized capital system but also delivers the strong executive authority to the board of directors. The very facts logically request that the law should be so revised as to put the duty of loyalty on the directors who are already provided with legal base necessary to perform the duty. Finally, the Korean Commercial Law specifies the provisions of the injunction, the right of inspection access to books and papers, and the representative suit in order to strengthen the status of stockholders. These may have reciprocal functions in connection with the reduction of the authority of the stockholder's meeting. These mechanism will become effective for the minority shareholders in excluding the stockholder's abuses, making a contrast with the single stockholder under the Anglo-American laws.
In brief, korea's new Commercial Law reflects on the general tendency seen in greater number of countries toward reallocating powers between the organs of business corporations established on the monopolistic capitalism system. The separation of the ownership from the management of the enterprise should be prerequisite for the effective execution of the new Commercial Law.
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