황해 육상기인 해양오염 현황과 국제법적 검토

“Dying seas” published in World Watch vol.8(1) by Worldwatch Institute staff researcher Anne E. Platt shows that the world's oceans are dying, This article selected 7 representative cases out of 35 major oceans around the world and analyzed the characteristics of pollution in each ocean. The second of these was analyzed in the Yellow Sea. According to this, in the Yellow Sea, 2.5 billion tons of river water flowing through the Yellow River in China and 3 billion tons of polluted water from industrial wastewater discharged from coastal industrial belts flow into the Yellow Sea every year. It was investigated that more than 80% of these are released without going through a purification process. In May 1995, the 2nd Korea-China Environmental Cooperation Committee was held, and the Korea-China Yellow Sea Environmental Cooperation Project was adopted as a new task. To this end, it was decided to promote individual surveys in territorial waters and joint surveys in high seas for 20 items. However, at the NOWPAP meeting in April 1998, pollution prevention and marine environment preservation were discussed in the Northwest Pacific, including the East Sea, Yellow Sea, and South Sea, which are the water areas around the Korean Peninsula. But, it was evaluated that relevant cooperation was insignificant and there were no significant results. The introduction of a regional organization that has the same level of legal binding force as the obligation to cooperate of EU and the Baltic Sea is the best option, but considering the diplomatic environment of Northeast Asia, introducing such a regional organization would be a difficult task. A gradual expansion of obligations through the expansion of cooperation among interested countries can be a realistic alternative. As a representative case of taking such a method among international environmental protection conventions, there is the ECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) on November 13, 1979. In this article, I will review the current status of the Yellow Sea and Yellow Sea pollution, and then review the regional response to existing Yellow Sea pollution. Based on this review, I will look into ways to solve land-based marine pollution in accordance with international law. In particular, review the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution on November 13, 1979, which is a representative case of taking a method through gradual expansion of obligations through expansion of cooperation among interested countries among international environmental protection conventions as a realistic solution to the Yellow Sea pollution problem. Through this, I try to derive regional countermeasures for the conservation of the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem and the reduction of pollution in the Yellow Sea.