The present study has attempted to set the public legal system, build the foundation, and analyze concrete contents for the Study on the Changes of the Administrative Action in the E-Gov. In addition, the current study has aimed at addressing and set...
The present study has attempted to set the public legal system, build the foundation, and analyze concrete contents for the Study on the Changes of the Administrative Action in the E-Gov. In addition, the current study has aimed at addressing and setting the future research task in the public law.
South Korea also has begun to build Electronic Government (E-Gov.) since OECD countries including the United States decided to invest a lot of effort and money into e-government construction. South Korea has succeeded to structure and develop E-Gov. rapidly and systematically and recently, UN has multiple times evaluated South Korean Government as the best E-Gov.
However, there is not an established body of research about the E-Gov. in the perspective of philosophy, principle, and theory of law in comparison to other administrative areas in the E-Gov.. It is hoped that this research will contribute to the improvement of the E-Gov. in direction to which it should not infringe a fundamental right of citizens or cause distortion of the structure in the Government.
E-Gov. should do the Administrative Action always in accordance with the Administrative Procedures using Information and Communication Technologies so that the dialogue between the government and the people can take place anytime, anywhere, and seamlessly and facilitate the removal of barriers to horizontal communication. Also, the specific research needs to be conducted so that E-Gov. may take effort to make the right Judicial and Administrative Remedies with an electronic form more quickly and effectively.
The Digilog Approach to Administrative Actions is best suited to respond to the Change from the C-Gov. to the E-Gov. We should apply, modify, and then verify these Legal Studies to the E-Gov. so that the basic rights of citizen can be well protected, the smooth Communication between Gov. and Citizen, Gov. Department and Local Authorities can be facilitated, and the quick right Remedies with electronic form can be promoted. It is not desirable to deny completely and shut off from the foundation of Legal Studies for the Conventional Government (C-Gov.).
It is necessary for us to use the general principles of administrative law including the principles of proportionality and to apply legal philosophy as we take effort to make new law swiftly in order to solve the problem and resolve conflicts in case that we don't have any law in administration and judicial areas of the E-Gov. It is required to complement the legislation of E-Gov. constantly, and to use legislative techniques so called 'Experimental Regulations' to overcome trial and error which might occur in the future.
E-government performs legislative, judicial, administrative Actions and makes influences to citizens through a variety of electronic forms and methods. However, E-Gov. will eventually make citizens alienate from the information and interfere communication with control and monitor them like George Orwell's Big Brother, if we research and concentrate only the Information and Communication Technologies. Therefore, to address the direction and find control principles of E-Gov., the research on foundation for philosophy of the law at the E-Gov. should be conducted in prior to any other studies on E-Gov.
The current study has examined whether philosophy of law can provide a philosophical basis for the E-Gov. in this dissertation. The examples of philosophy of law discussed are the futurist Alvin Toffler's Futurology, Habermas' Dialogue Theory, Legal Positivism, the Principle of Natural Law, the Idea of Historische Rechtsschule, and Pragmatism.
The United States and some states of Germany are taking a legislation system which has the "E-Government Act" as general holistic law and concretes this Act by the particular legislation. South Korea also has recently enacted the "E-Government Act" as the legal representative of general law, and enacted the "Framework Act on National Informatization" for the complement of it, and enacted legislative particulars for concreting each law.
There is a high risk that E-Gov. might infringe a fundamental right of citizen with secret and unconscious form which C-Gov. could not use, when it performs administrative actions using Information and Communication Technologies in the wrong direction. Hence, we should research on control principles such as the principle of proportionality, the principle of cooperative E-Gov., citizen-centered principles, and the principle of prohibits the regulatory control of freedom of expression. By doing so, we can advance electronic democracy and promote the rule of law at E-Gov. using Information and Communication Technologies. In addition, we need to elevate those principles to the constitutional level to emphasize them in every area at E-Gov.
Next, the current study has addressed and explored the change of the administrative actions after fulfillment of construction of E-Gov. and classifies the Administrative Actions for systematic analysis, reviews the Administrative Plan, the Public Behavior of Citizen, Electronic Administrative Action, and other Administrative Functions, and checked out the Effective Enforcement and Administrative Inspection of E-Government. Furthermore, this study has analyzed the Administrative Remedies in the era of E-Gov. and divides Remedies into proactive remedies and ex post remedies. The examples of the former are the Administrative Procedures, Privacy Protection, and Public Access to Government. And those of the latter are E-Administrative Appeal and E-Litigation such as E-Civil Litigation, E-Criminal Proceedings, E-Administrative Proceedings, and the E-Constitutional Court.
In conclusion, to perform and improve E-Gov. successfully and properly, the use of Information and Communication Technologies should be preceded by the will and philosophy towards E-democracy and E-Rule of Law. The former is not the only solution for the problems and conflicts in the future E-Government, the latter is the essential prerequisite for it.