기업지배구조 개선을 위한 최근의상법상 변화

Recently endeavors for improving the corporate governance system has been continued all over the world. As for Korea, the economic crisis of the late 1997 was the turning point to the new era for improving Korean corporate governance. After the 1997 economic crisis, endeavors for betterment of Korean corporate governance, such as some new schemes for transparencies of corporate management and protective policies of minority shareholders, had been gradually increased, and these endeavors looked somewhat successful. However, the new world economic crisis in 2008 demanded Korean corporate circumstance new changes, the Korean government has continually tried to improve the corporate governance in order to catch up with the world’s consistency and international trend, and totally amended the Korean Commercial Code in 2011. Moreover, the Korean government, most recently, proposed to amend the Korean Commercial Code again in 2013 and this proposal included most controversial issues especially to Korean enterprises unlike some existed changes of Korean Commercial Code related to the Corporate governance in Korea by then. In the meanwhile, many studies and researches have focused on the detail subjects related to the Korean corporate governance whenever the Korean Commercial Code has been amended since the last economic crisis in 1997, but there are rare studies which screened the general amendments at large and examined the history of the changes of the corporate governance in Korea. Therefore, this article systematically examines the flow of changes for the betterment of Korean corporate governance since the economic crisis in 1997 and studies for the 2013 government’s proposals of amendment to the Korean Commercial Code. Through this article, the model of the corporate government standard to some other countries in the East Asia, especially to China could be established.