Regarding the [Government Organization Act; which is legislated on 19th November,
2014] Korea Coast Guard(KCG) has been re-organized and belong from Korea Coast Guard
shall be established under the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries to Ministry of Public Safety
and Security. Furthermore, National Police Agency(NPA) Commissioner has the right for
administer duties concerning investigation and information by succession from Korea Coast
Guard Commissioner.
That means that main rule has been moved from prior KCG to Ministry of Public Safety
and Security(MPSS) and NPA currently which is dual structure.
Meanwhile, This kind of organization change has been effective to investigative agency
which exert KCG's call of duty and causes needs of variety problems. In other words, There
are quite huge changes such as KCG's reduction of their work, call of duty and
re-organization regarding revised government organization act.
However this change - including re-organization by government, was not able to take
current MPSS's special features such as organization specialty and legal rights. It means, the
current change has not been taken present law system CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW
and there was no preparation to stable maritime police authority action as well.
To sum up, this revised GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION ACT is supposed to
provide total , quick security service by establishing strong disasters and safety control tower.
However they only contains few area such as organization revision regarding 'Sewol Ferry
Disaster', they was not able to contain the other parts of Society.
Therefore, in this article I would like to check the part of re-evaluation of current change
made by KCC‘s organization revision. It is supposed to provide better legal stability by making clear of work area by government agencies who acts maritime police authority.