The business building lease protection act was enacted in South Korea with the need for stability in the lessee's economic life. This act had somewhat contributed to the stable business of small-scale business tenants in their making profit by setting...
The business building lease protection act was enacted in South Korea with the need for stability in the lessee's economic life. This act had somewhat contributed to the stable business of small-scale business tenants in their making profit by setting up a standard to protect their right against the lessor of the business building. However when the act came into effect, they were often not under actual protection due to the issues with the system.
On the other hand, the effectiveness of the business building lease protection act has been questioned since the protection of the lessee is only confined to the small-scale business tenants, the public announcement system depending on business registration is imperfect, and there is no provision about the protection of premium. To solve such issues, this paper suggests improvement schemes as follow:
First, the protection range of this act should be extended to the whole lessee and the protection should be categorized into the small-scale business tenant and the general business tenant in application. Among the main provisions of this act, the direct provisions relating to the security deposit such as opposing power, priority payment right, and super priority payment right are only applied to the small-scale business tenants and the indirect guarantee provisions for the lessee to collect the invested capital are only limited to lease term, contract renewal request and claim for renewal of tenancy, hence it is recommended to extend the application of these provisions to the whole lessee to guarantee their stable business.
Second, for the public announcement system, an extended process is required to protect the third party instead of confining it to the manifestation according to the current business registration. The current act allows the announcement to be accessed by lessee, lessor, fixed collateral holder and stakeholder and as a result, the announcement function is imperfect, thus those having made a lease contract should be approved as stakeholder too.
Third, legislative efforts are needed to protect premium which is physical and abstract business asset formed by the business tenants. For this, considering the feature of premium related to the profit from the location, the collection of the invested capital should get easier through the claim for contract renewal, and the claim for remuneration should be defined not to violate the claim for contract renewal.
Finally, the leaseholder with opposing power and priority payment right should be offered the limited claim for auction. The claim for auction will be given to the leaseholder with opposing power and priority payment right for convenient collection of the security deposit, but for the other leaseholders, only the claim for leasehold registration should be allowed without the claim for auction.