The Medical Affairs Law enacted to secure the national health and to detennine the standard of health care activities is the most fundamental law in the health care related law system that controls matters concerning medical service as an righteous operational tool to employ the process of production, arrangement, and management of health care more rationally.
However, the current Medical Affairs Law in Korea dose not properly cope with the rapidly changing medical environment and the public demands, and also does not display the function as a superior law concerning the overall medical service; as a result, the unreality and irrationality of its system and contents are raised. Thus, this study tried to conduct the comparative study focusing on the organizing system, major details, examine the problems of the Korean medical law system, and suggest the efficient reform direction. The problems and reform directions occurred as a result of the study are as follows.
The medical law should have the rational system that can regulate the overall national health case system and activate the function of health care. In order to rationalize the medical law system, the medical law system should be reformed in order to achieve the objectives of national health care efficiently, the related laws should obtain the vertical and horizontal coherence, and he systematical improvement that can view the overall system should be achieved
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