Saeko Fujiwara

The Development of the Pleasure Boat Policy in Korea ― The Comparison to Safety Policies between Korea, Japan and UK

In past years, rare marine leisure activities were conducted within Korean water. Korean government currently focus on promoting the pleasure boat activities with the purpose of developing it as the new tourism industry. However, with the increasing of pleasure boat activities within Korean water, more and more marine accidents or collisions between pleasure boats appear gradually. It also brings Korean government the new issue to manage marine activities such as pleasure boats in safe. Actually, it seems insufficient to achieve the captioned purpose only by setting the relevant laws and regulations for leisure boats. Further measures to improve the safety of marine pleasure boat activities should be considered additionally. Therefore, this paper will discuss 1 The current situation of pleasure boats in Korea, 2 The comparison to safety policies between Korea, Japan and UK 3 The suggestion to develop Korean marine leisure culture. This paper will also propose the direction to improve safe activities from personal, organizational and governmental aspects respectively.