방문판매법 개정안의 주요내용 비교검토

A Study on Major Issues of a Revised Bill of the Door to Door Selling Act

In this thesis, it presents a study of main issues of a revised bill of the Door-to-Door Sales Act (hereinafter referred to as 'revised bill') in three articles which has been submitted to a National Assembly and shows a comparison of the revised bill. This paper explains contents and purposes of the revised bill and analyzes strong and weak points comparatively. Additionally, it includes a writer's personal opinion on main issues of the revised bill. The revised bill presents main issues including a definition of multilevel sales and a change of standard in computing total support allowances. Under the current regulation, the conditions to become a multilevel sales organization are as follows: ① A registration of a salesman is carried out by stages targeting consumers who buy goods and the level of the registered salesman reaches the level three and ② giving economical benefits (support allowances and retail profits) towards sales and activities to attract people for a registration are used as inducement. Toward this regulation, the revised bill defines multilevel sales in a different manner and distinguishes clearly with door-to-door sales. The writer also views that door-to-door sales are considered as a form of the first level of salesman who only receives commissions by selling door to door. Other than this form should be considered as multilevel sales. Regarding the calculation standards of support allowance, the current regulation stipulates that a basis of a commission should be a total amount of supplied goods when it comes to an intermediation. But the revised bill stipulates not to provide more than 35% on the basis of the total amount of supplied goods without distinguishing consignment or intermediation. It is concerned that the revised bill might be viewed as a chance of giving excessive support allowances to multilevel salesmen who mainly deal with intermediation.