한국민법에 대한 일본민법의 영향과 향후의 관계

The Effect of Japanese Civil Law on the Korean Civil Law and the Future Relationship - For the Japanese Civil Law as the Research Subject of the Comparative Law -

This article will take a general view of the affect of Japanese civil law on the establishment of Korean civil law and on the theories and case law. The general view may be summarized as following. The Korean Civil Law can be evaluated to adopt the Japanese Civil Law modeled after the German Civil Law by reference to the Chinese Civil Law and Manchu National Civil Law which were newly established by the adoption of the Japanese Civil Law theories. Here, the issue is which civil law, the German Civil Law or the Japanese Civil Law, must be evaluated to affect more on the Korean Civil Law, In conclusion, both Civil Laws affected on the Korean civil law. The Japanese theories have affected on the Korean civil law. The Korean civil law had gone through the time depending on the Japanese Civil Law and the time independent from it. Since the 2000 s, Korean scholars have considered the Japanese Civil Law as one of comparative laws. Meanwhile, it has never seemed to analyze cases through the specific and systematic comparison how the Japanese case law has affected on the Korean case law. Considering it, this article make an effort to demonstrate through the comparison of two countries case laws that the Korean case law is highly dependent on the Japanese case law, which is good enough to call “the reception of case law”. From this overview, I conclude that now is the time Korean Civil Law overcame “the Japanese Civil Law and further the two civil laws are mutually exchanged and coexist. In order to settle down this trend, first of all we need to be faithful to the study of our Civil Law. As a tool for resolving various legal problems, Civil Law theories need to be specified and systematized. Also, this article suggests to study comparatively the case laws of the two countries in relation with the Japanese civil law.