소비자보호에 관한 법적 이해와 법정책의 방향 - 소비자기본법을 중심으로 -

Economic life of modern society is briskly developed through interaction between business operator and consumer. There was production-oriented policy in early industrial society, and self-production and order production had a huge presence on this period, so consumer injury was rarely happening. However, while industrialization proceeded, distribution steps of products became complicated, and monopoly of an economic structure and competition between companies deepened, so combination commodity and hazardous commodity appeared. An unreasonable price, and deceptive and exaggerative advertisement expanded in distribution process, so safety of consumers and reasonable consumer choice were hindered. Like this, while modern industrialized process was changing into modern industrial society, consumer injury became a main social issue. Especially, changes of consumption environment such as improvement of national income and e-commerce caused new consumer problems and various consumer disputes. Consumer Framework Act was enacted to solve such various consumer disputes. As a result, enactment of the act is meaningful, because consumer protection was recognized as a main legal liability of the country, and a legal ground was prepared to call business operators to protect consumers. In terms of this, the study desires to analyze legal trouble of current law in terms of constitution, based on enactment background and main contents of Consumer Framework Act. Based on this analysis, this study desires to contribute to guarantee of healthy daily life as a consumer by suggesting direction of law policy to guarantee right of consumers.