I. Objectives

• Support of formulation of State legislative policy through technical research and study on domestic and foreign legislation
• Systematic collection, management and computerization of legal information
• Contribution to improvement of the law culture through prompt and exact dissemination of current laws and regulations

• Special corporation established under the Korea Legislation Research Institute Act
• Government-contributed research institution-operated by government contribution, operational proceeds, etc.

Dec.21,1989

Promulgation and enforcement of the Korea Legislation Research Inst itute Act(Law No.4141)

Feb.12,1990

Selection and formulation of establishment committee (5 members)

Jun.18,1990

Contribution of basic property by founder (the President of the Republic of Korea)

Jul.28,1990

Election of directors and auditor
- Inauguration of first president, Lee, Sei-Hoon

Jul.30, 1990

Establishment and opening of Institute

Aug.14,1990

Meeting of directors
-Election of chief director
(Kim, Doh-Chang, Lawyer)
- Enactment of main Rules and Regulations

Jul.30, 1993

Election of the 2nd chief director
(Kim, Doh-Chang, Lawyer)
- Inauguration of the 2nd president,
Chang, Myung-Kun

Mar.10,1995

Inauguration of the 3nd president, Baek, Nam-Jin

Board of Directors

Chief Director	Kim, Doh-Chang	Lawyer
Director	Baek, Nam-Jin	President
	Kim, Sei-Shin	Professor, Kang-Won Univ.
	Kim, Jung-Hyun	Lawyer
	Song, Sang-Hyun	Professor, Seoul National Univ.
	Ahn, Byung-Hoon	Managing Director, Chosun Daily Newspaper
	Park, Song-Kyu	Vice-Minister, Ministry of Legislation
	Park, Jong-Hueb	Deputy Secretary-General for Legislative Affairs, Secretariat of National Assembly
	Lee, Whan-Kyun	Vice-Minister, Ministry of Finance and Economy
Auditor	Seok, Jin-Kang	Lawyer

V.Organization

III. Main Projects

A. Section of Research Projects

1. Research on Legislatibe Policy
To contribute to efficient execution of national policies by suggesting directions of government legislative policy, and providing rapid and timely legislative measures to solve pending problems, through comprehensive study on all laws and regulations in force, and to securing consistency in system of laws and regulations by striving for rationalizing process of legislation.
2. Research on Basic Laws
To contrivute to securing and reinforcing normative power of existing legislation and qualitative improvement of law through survey and analysis of opinions of all social standings, which are the ground of legislative policy, measurement of estangement between law system and law reality, and quest of possibility to uphold and develop traditional legislation of Korea. To help in unified legislation in the future through survey and research on legal system and life in the North Korea.
3. Research on Foreign Legislation
To furnish materials necessary for establishing legislative policy through extensice collection, arrangement and analysis of foreign law information as well as comparative analysis of foreign law information as well as comparative analysis of various legislations of major foreign countries, and to offer legal basis to activate political and economic interchanges with them through concentrated research on old socialist legislation of Russia, Eastern Europe, China, etc.

To enhance efficiency of legislation-related research by constructing close research cooperation system in legislation field with domestic and foreign research institutions, and to reflect on research various and broad views of experts in all circles on legislation-related issues through holding of academic meetings, scientific bulletin, etc.

C. Section of Law Information Projects

To offer diversified services, such as on-line service to citizens, CD-ROM, etc., by building up database of all materials related to laws and regulations, such as current Korean Laws and English version thereof, history of laws and regulations, administrative regulations, bylaws, cases, information on literatures, etc., and to drive forward plan to establish nation-wide 'General Law Information Center' in connection with overseas netwarks.

D. Section of Compilation Projects

To publish and disseminate the Current Laws of the Republic of Korea and English version thereof, collection of law and regulation histories, books of current directives, legislation commentaries, etc., for the purpose of systematic collection and management, and rapid and exact dissemination, of law information. To offer materials concernig current laws and regulations through distribution of 'Legislation', a periodical legal journal published every months.

KOREA LEGISLATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
1-103 Shinmunro 2-Ga Chongno-Ku
Seoul, 110-062, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
TEL : (0082-2)722-0163/5
FAX : (0082-2)722-2900