Comparative Evaluation between Environmental and Media ADR in terms of Legal Reservation of Compensation Clause

배상 규정의 법률유보 관점에서 환경과 언론 ADR 비교

Media ADR is currently emerging as one of successful cases in South Korea while environmental ADR was known not to satisfy both defendants and offenders. Thus, this paper is intended to present proper remedies for typical compensation schemes of environmental ADR by comparing the two ADRs regarding legal reservation of compensation clause. It was found that the media ADR helped clients achieve a more fast and easy dispute resolution by providing compensation standards based on various categories such as types and scopes of compensation. However, the compensation scheme of environmental ADR brought out public complaints and inadequate services due to inconsistency and instability in terms of legal reservation. The results indicate that the compensation clause based on the reservation of laws in media ADR could be used not only as a checklist to confirm limitations of environmental ADR, but also as realistic evidences to adjust the compensation standard systematically that is under development and requires remodelling. As a result, the research findings have opened the new possibilities of "the quality assurance of environmental ADR based on the domestic legislation", proposed as an initial aim of this paper.