Abstract

The Korean government partially revised the existing Marine Scientific Research(MSR) Act in order to MSR conducted by areas beyond Korean jurisdiction on 22 December 2020, as a party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. There is stipulated in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982(hereinafter referred to as UNCLOS) all States and competent international organizations have the right to conduct MSR regardless of their geographical location. The agreement varies its regulations depending on the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, the continental shelf, the high seas and the Area. However, despite these regulations, there are clear limitations of marine scientific research activities in areas where no agreement has been reached on maritime boundaries of less than 400 nautical miles. So in this paper, I examined various legislative cases in Korea related to MSR, as a party of UNCLOS. Moreover, I analyzed the cases of marine scientific research around Dokdo between Korea and Japan in 2006, the dispute to the Ieodo in 2006 and the Buoy case in 2018 between Korea and China. Through this analysis, I considered way to improve the Korean Legislation related to MSR.

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