공익신고자 보호와 공익신고자보호법 연구 - 공익신고자보호법 시행을 중심으로 -

Whistleblower, who discloses information about wrongdoing within an organization by one person to another party , has been played an important role for protection of public interests in public and private sector. In connection, Korea has first enacted the anti-corruption law in 2001 in order to counter corruptions in public sector, and has extended its effort with establishing protection system for whistleblowing. While public sector has enhancing its anti corruption system gradually, however, in private sector infringements of public interest has increased and threatened stability, transparency, and fairness of society. Under this circumstance, the law, which provides proper protection mechanism for whistleblower who eventually has served for national agenda for bringing fair society, has been enacted on March 29, 2011 and has finally been enforced on September this year. This law aims at protecting public whistelblower, providing proper mechanism for guaranteeing the people's basic human rights, and eventually contributing establishment of stability, transparency, and fairness of society. And this law has its signification of extending protection system for whistleblowing from public sector to private sector. This study has identified the concept of whistleblower in the Anti-Corruption law, has introduced history of protection of public whistleblower including social demand for it, and has reviewed constitutional background. And also this study has focused key provisions of the law, has extended comparative approach with similar legislation of other countries, and has concluded to suggest further improvement of the law.