주주총회의 활성화를 위한 과제

Shareholders' meeting has been a formal and weakened organ, because of many shareholders' indifference and disregard. For the activation of shareholders' meeting as many shareholders as possible should attend to the shareholders' meeting. Shareholders, either majority or minority, can exercise voting right in shareholders' meeting, the way to exercise his or her voting right without attendance is written vote or electronic voting, or proxy voting or proxy solicitation, especially electronic voting and electronic proxy solicitation can be achieved electronically through the electronic voting system or electronic proxy solicitation system of Korea Securities Depository. But these system has been used as a resort for the listed companies' utilization of shadow voting system. In order that as many shareholders as possible exercise his or her voting rights by electronic voting or electronic proxy solicitation in the shareholders' meeting, it is demanded above everything else to promote the communications among shareholders and their company. secondly, electronic voting should be adopted in listed companies. Furthermore, it should be improved in electronic proxy solicitation system that minority shareholders can propose electronic proxy solicitation to the other shareholders. In relation to the exercising of voting rights of the institutional investors, it is important to restrict indifference or arbitrary exercising and to exercise their voting rights in order to protect general investors' benefit, and to clarify the indefinite criteria of the voting rights exercise indicator of Korea National Pension Service.