블록체인 선하증권 도입에 관한 연구

With the recent development of IT technology, e-commerce has increased, and the speed and efficiency of international transactions are improving through changes in communication and transaction methods. However, the shipping industry still has paper-based inefficient transactions. The bill of lading, one of the most important documents used in international transactions today, is still a paper document that must be physically delivered with the goods shipped. The main reason is that paper bill of lading, which has long been recognized for its legal effect as a distributable paper document, plays a key role in international shipping. The practical problem of these paper documents can be solved by the technical solution of digitizing the transaction process performed by the bill of lading. However, over the past few decades, various efforts have been made to dematerialize bills of lading, but they have not been successful. The lack of legal basis to support the use of electronic bill of lading and controversy over the registration system model to identify holders of electronic bill of lading have caused uncertainty in the use of electronic bill of lading. The blockchain bill of lading model to overcome these problems is also subject to considerable legal uncertainty at the moment. In this paper, whether blockchain bills of lading can provide new possibilities for digitalization of bills of lading under the current legal environment will be examined, and then the limitations of existing bills of lading and electronic bills of lading will be analyzed, and the basic principles and technologies of blockchain will be reviewed. In addition, after reviewing whether blockchain document of title can be used under the current legislation as a prerequisite for the use of blockchain bills of lading, I would like to derive legal implications for blockchain bills of lading, including implications under Korean commercial law.