접촉지대의 법령과 용어의 이동 보험업법 ‘총칙’을 중심으로

Abstract

Law is one of the fields in which the Japanese language has been influential and where Japanese-style terminology continues to be used, the usage of which, together with the usage of Chinese characters has complicated the legal field for many individuals. Many businesses have been focusing on refining Korean legal terms due to a general awareness that the language used in the legal field is complicated. In this research, the background against which Korean legal terms were influenced by Japanese legal terminology will be examined. For this purpose, a part of the Insurance Business Act will be considered from the viewpoint of cultural translation instead of the normal usage. ‘Law’ and ‘translation’ will be considered using a multidisciplinary approach within a ‘contact zone’ with the objective of observing the ‘transfer’ of words from the general rules of the first chapter of the 36th Insurance Business Act that had been revised 35 times after it was enacted in 1962. The result of the research shows that Korean law is still within the ‘contact zone’, in spite of the efforts of businesses working to refine the terminology. This research analyzed the general rules of the first chapter of the Insurance Business Act. However, since 1962, in subsequent revisions of the act, we only observed a partial transfer of words since the time of the ‘contact zone’. Also, the words in the first chapter of the general rules that were enacted in 1962 are mostly the same as those that are used in the 2013 edition of the Insurance Business Act. It follows that it is not possible to meaningfully conclude that words from the Insurance Business Act have indeed undergone a transition from the ‘contact zone’ to a certain point in the present. Nevertheless, the usefulness of this research lies therein that the background investigation and the analysis of part of the Insurance Business Act has succeeded in revealing the phenomenon of a partial transfer of words from the ‘contact zone’ period.