Korean commercial law made the competence of the general meeting of stockholders reduced and that of the board of directors strengthened, by adopting the board of directors' collective principle from the past general meeting's collective principle wit...
Korean commercial law made the competence of the general meeting of stockholders reduced and that of the board of directors strengthened, by adopting the board of directors' collective principle from the past general meeting's collective principle with accepting the system of the board of directors in Anglo - americam laws .
Nevertheless, when we look into how our enterprises have managed for more 30 years, we find out that they have not got out of premordern backwardness and have managed in the form of private enterprises or closed companies.
Accordingly, apart from its original intentions -caused by the irregular management of business, the irrational administration and formalization of the board of directors, the autocracy and running alone of the representative director and so on-the board of directors, in a position that must direct executive bodies including a representative director, fall to an organization which inversely is under orders form the representative director, and finally cannot afford to accept interior and outside needs for enterprises.
Therefore I will reveal some problems of the board of directors in our corporations which lose functions as an organization which directs and advises top management, judges its decisions, and appoints it. And also I will compare and examine with every nation's legislations, and then conclude that we need t o improve the management of the board director by improving selection methods of board like, the adoption of the documentary decision system, the limitation of openess of the board of director's minutes, culmuative voting and so on, in addition to, as the devices which activate the system of board, ① the seperation of ownership and management, ② the enactment of ouside directors and ③ the constitution of the standing executive committee under the board of diretors, and introducing the dual structure mouvelle in French commercial laws. Finally I'll propose legislative plans about these.