Although North Korea has been enacting laws related with medical service
such as, the medical service law was legislated on December 3rd in the year
1997 for the first time.
In our case, the national medical service law was established in 1951, and
after the name of the law was retitled to ‘medical service law’ now in use,
there were 38 times of alternation in medical service law.
Thereupon, this thesis comparatively studies the characteristic respect through
the changes of medical enactments of the South and the North Korea.
First, for the fundamental rule of the South and the North Korea medical
service law, the North Korea takes contrasted principles which are the healthcare
by preventive medical care, the system of universal free medical service, the
section doctor system, whereas the South Korea is based on principles such as
making a rule for national medical service centering around medical personnel as
well as medical institution based on clinical medicine.
Second, even through the North Korea medical law emphasizes the political
idea and is based on complexity, it is getting reformed to have simplicity as the
political characteristic is moderated by amendment. Contrarily, althorugh the
South Korea medical law is simpler and concreter than the North Korea’s, it uses plain terminologies.
Third, the South and the North Korea medical law shows the change in
legislation such as the bigger approaching possibility than before. The examples
can be doctors’ duty of explanation, preferential treatment of an emergency case,
and so on, and these provisions promote the accessing possibility if unification
medical law is established.