• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.21-29
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• 2015

The emergence of the internet causes the electronic trade of movies, music, software and other digital content products to be an eminent share of international commerce. The purpose of this study is to examine legal issues of electronic commerce chapters of the Korea US FTA and tasks of the digital contents industry. Results of the study show that several implications based on the industry are offered. The Korean government needs to do the following: settle of classification issue in digital contents, settle of customs issue in digital contents, settle of issue of non-discrimination principle in digital contents, settle of exclusion issue in audiovisual services, improve of global competitiveness, unify of export support system, establish of overseas expansion strategy in genre and regional contents, train of global experts and protect of intellectual property in digital contents.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.17 no.6 s.78
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• pp.89-98
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• 2002

현재, 한.미 ROU 협상당시 의도했던 목적은 이미 달성되었다. 우리나라는 WTO 정부조달협정에 가입하여 협정을 준수하고 있으며, WTO 정신에 입각하여 통신장비 조달도 공개, 공정, 비차별 원칙에 따라 운영하고 있다. 양허대상 통신사업자인 한국통신의 경우, 1997년 10월부터 출자전환과 함께 조달시장이 전면 개방됨에 따라 전세계 모든 공급업체에 비차별, 내국민대우를 보장하고 있다. 또한 한.미 ROU에 명시된 바와 같이 한국이 WTO 정부조달협정에 가입함으로서 한.미 ROU에서 배제조건을 충족시키고 있다. 더불어 현재 KT의 정부지분은 100% 민간에 매각되어 완전하게 민영화되었다. 그럼에도 불구하고 한.미 ROU는 WTO 정부조달협정으로 대체되거나 종료되지 않고 있어 양허대상인 통신사업자는 한.미 ROU의 본래의 취지와는 달리 경영의 자율성 침해와 조달의 비효율성 증가로 인하여 많은 추가비용을 지불하고 있다. 따라서 본 고는 국내통신사업의 발전과 규제완화라는 측면에서 정부조달협정 중에서 가장 파급효과가 큰 한.미 ROU의 개정협상을 위한 방향을 모색해 보았다.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.25-44
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• 2017

Though electronic commerce has grown rapidly in international trade, there is no basic consensus for its concept and rule applied. So WTO has done practice of not imposing customs duties on digital contents and been researching overall on electronic commerce through Work Program while many countries of the world attempt to obtain their interests by stipulating chapter of electronic commerce in their FTAs. This paper has compared and analysed chapter of electronic commerce in all the FTAs which Korea has signed and enforced. Korea's FTA stipulates commonly no customs duties, the other chapter's priority when chapter of electronic commerce conflicts the other chapter, electronic authentication, protection of personal information and consumer protection. But it has weak consistency and framework as it has different provisions for the objects of electronic commerce respectively, reserves classification & applied rule for electronic commerce, stipulates differently on non discrimination treatment and so on. Korea should participate in the research of international organization including WTO and cope actively and elastically by analysing the provisions of electronic commerce of the other countries' FTA such as USA, EU, CHINA and so on.