Welcome to the South Korea CISG database on Arbitration and other International Commercial Law materials. The CISG is the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the mercantile law of countries that account for two-thirds of global trade.

CISG text Korean version   Oh, Won-Suk Professor, Sungkyunkwan University   Lee, Ho-Sun Professor, Kookmin University   Yun, Sung-Seung Professor, Ajou University, College of Law

This database is produced by the Pace University School of Law’s Institute of Commercial Law, headed by Executive Secretary, Albert H. Kritzer, A.B., College of William and Mary, J.D., Cornell Law School. Professor Kritzer has been a member of the New York Bar since 1952. He practiced law with Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine and progressed to the General Electric Company where he served as GE's International Sales Counsel. He has published a five-volume text on international contracting, the International Contract Manual. Recipient of the International Affairs Award of the New York State Bar Association, he is Executive Secretary of the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace University School of Law and co-editor of the Electronic Library on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and International Contract Law. The South Korea page is edited by Danielle Choi, Pace University School of Law, J.D.        The purposes of the Institute are to promote public understanding of International Commercial Law in South Korea, support and promote trade with South Korea within the CISG guidelines by providing background on the CISG as applied in South Korean courts, and to encourage scholars and practitioners to publish their works here to establish a publicly-available knowledge and opinion resource.        The Institute provides a database on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienne Convention 1980) (CISG), on Arbitration as a method of dispute resolution, and on other International Commercial Law materials in English and Korean, in addition to issues of importance to neighboring East Asian nations.        This database is complied by the submissions of many prominent scholars and legal practitioners in South Korea and is under the editorship of Danielle Choi, Esq. with the cooperation of the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace University School of Law. (To add your article, book, or other work here, please contact Danielle Choi at: daniellechoi@yahoo.com.) This database is part of: The Internet autonomous network of CISG websites