Studies on Comparative Culture of Korea-Japan Economic Laws---Seeking for the Asian Principle of Competition and its Workability

我们的研究项目是寻找东亚竞争原则。韩国的经济体制在这5年里发生了变化。1997年，韩国经济面临货币危机。韩国总统金德俊在国际货币基金组织的条件下努力进行经济改革。1999年底，金正日似乎完成了经济改革，包括重建财阀（财阀）和引进外国直接投资。日本的经济体系已经在10多年的时间里陷入了长期萧条。经济改革似乎没有成功。政府对行业协会与政府官员之间的反竞争合作更加担忧。日本政府也逐渐认识到公平交易委员会应该在日本经济复苏中发挥更重要的作用。所以，在政府的干预下，有人可能会怀疑是否有竞争原则。由于历史上经济的路径依赖性，不能确定盎格鲁-撒克逊的竞争方式是否会在韩国或日本经济中发挥作用。我们预测，东亚竞争原则可能会随着亚洲自由贸易协定而出现。现在日本和韩国需要自由贸易区来发展自己的经济。我们认为亚洲自由贸易区可能是基于亚洲共同体原则。原则是什么？这一定是亚洲社会的规则，它由许多属于家庭般的大众社会的个人组成，受到国家的监督。这正是我们在这个项目中要更精确地建立的。

Our research project is to find the East-Asian Principle of Competition.The Korean's economic system has changed for these 5 years. In 1997, the Korea's economy faced currency crisis. Kim-De-Jun, Korean president wrestled with economic reformations under the conditionality of IMF. At the end of 1999, Kim seemed to accomplish the economic reformations, including the reconstruction of Chaebol (Zaibatsu) and the introducing Foreign Direct Investments.The Japanese's economic system has been under the logn depression for more about 10 years. The economic reformation did not seem to be attained successfully. The government has taken it more apprehensive about anti-competitive co-operations between Trade Association and the government officials. And the government gradually came to think the Japanese Fair Trade Commission should take more important role for the Japanese economic recovery.In the both countries, Closer relationship has been there between governmental domain and economic domain. So under the government's intervention, someone might wonder whether there might be any Competition Principle. Because of historical Path Dependence of economies, it could not to be sure whether Anglo-Saxon way of Competition will come to work in the Korean or Japanese economy. We predict the East-Asian Principle of Competition might be to come with Asian Free Trade agreements. Now Japan and Korea need for Free Trade Areas for their own economic developments. We think the Asian FTA might be on the Asian Community Principle. What is the principle? That must be the Asian Society Rule that consists of many individuals who belong to family-like-mass-society under supervises of its nations. It is what exactly we are to establish in this project for more precisely.