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The article discusses some legal approaches to transboundary air pollution and explores the current state of environmental dispute resolution mechanisms and common environmental norms in Northeast Asia. It depicts legal solutions to the transboundary air pollution over South Korea, and describes the Trail Smelter case that focuses on international environmental law and interstate dispute settlement. Briefly explains the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP Convention).

The article presents information on the incorporation of a Socratic legal educational approach into South Korea Confucian-based law school educational structure. It is reported that on July 27, 2007, South Korea passed the Graduate Law School Act (GLSA), which introduced a new legal educational system based on the U.S.-style three-year graduate law school program. Under the GLSA, to sit for the revised Korean bar examination to become a qualified lawyer, one should be a graduate from one of the new Korean graduate law schools, which opened in 2009. The article also presents information on Japan's legal education system, and compares it with that of South Korea.

Both the South Korean and Thai governments encouraged consumer credit card usage to boost consumer spending and reinvigorate the national economy following the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Today, almost a decade following the crisis, the authors provide a comparative analysis of how policymakers in both South Korea and Thailand have attempted to regulate the rapid upsurge in consumer credit card debt in their respective economies. This Article also notes some of the benefits and risks of the approaches taken by the South Korean and Thai governments, using as focal points the South Korean government's Individual Debtor Rehabilitation Act, a personal debt relief program introduced by the Thai Ministry of Finance in 2005, and a series of Bank of Thailand credit card regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides a theoretical framework to discuss the impact of anti-speculation laws on the real estate and financial markets, with respect to the South Korean case. Examination of relevant factors that led to the Anti-Speculation Laws, whose objective is to curb real estate investment speculation in the Korean real estate markets; Discussion on the anti-speculation capital gains tax based on time held; Tax effect of the anti-speculation laws.