해외진출 한국기업의 인권침해에 대한 책임구성 고찰

What the protection of human rights is being discussed in international dimension is the extremely modern phenomenon. The recognition as saying that human rights need to be today approached with universalism, not national and regional relativism is allowing human rights issue to be approached with universal interest and universal value in international society. In this background, today’s human rights violation issue by TNC(transnational corporation) is becoming new task of modern society. Even the human rights issue of overseas Korean firms is becoming recently controversy in this context. It is becoming an unavoidable problem any more from a problem of violating the local labor laws such as low wage,delayed payment of wage, and unfair dismissal, which are occurring in overseas Korean firms and in subcontractors and business partners of Korean corporation, to a problem of violating human rights such as forced labor,child labor, and employment discrimination. In this way, the human rights issue of overseas Korean firms needs to be made responsibility composition with the national responsibility for protecting human rights and with the corporate responsibility for violating human rights. A country needs to realize responsibility for human rights through offering preventive measure or relief means for human rights abuse. On the other hand, a corporation needs to realize responsibility for human rights through direct judicial regulation. Moreover, even the human rights violation by overseas firms as well as Korean firms will need to secure possibility as a subject of domestically judicial procedure. TNC and human rights issue will be the main issue in international society even in the future. In this aspect, a discussion about responsibility composition for human rights violation of overseas Korean firms will be said to be important in a sense of reinforcing policy for human rights of Korean corporations and of securing social normative power of human rights.