한국 산재보상보험법제의 해설과 실무

Abstract

The advancement in the means of production and the improvement in the labor conditions have not reduced in the number of industrial accidents. Instead, they have introduced new types of industrial accidents and the related legal issues. In particular, many Asian countries have experienced regime changes and rapid industrialization, which expose them to various political/legislative burdens such as ex post damage compensation and ex ante prevention. Therefore, they have huge interest in learning industrial accident compensation insurance system. Korea’s astonishing speed of industrialization has guaranteed itself an increase in the law suits regarding industrial accidents and the overload of demand on administrative and/or judicial judgment, which have turned into a big social problem. In this research we concentrate on the requested issues of Korean industrial accident compensation system in an attempt to help understand Korea’s system. This study offers the recent statistics and trend of industrial accidents in Korea. Also, this research is expected to be a valuable reference to help understand Korean legislation. Further, our research is a part of a bigger picture which aims to promote the efficient international exchange of the legislative information. This research cannot be used as a universal prescription of industrial accident insurance reference to all countries. However, the existence of industrial accidents and the necessity of the related compensation system are universal.