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The Structure of Large-Scale Human Rights Violations Committed by Business Enterprises: A Qualitative Case Study on Disputes over the Power Cable Construction at Milyang
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기업에 의한 대규모 인권침해의 구조: 밀양 송전선 분쟁에 대한 사례연구

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법과사회이론학회 법과사회 법과사회 제48호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2015.1
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127 - 165 (39page)

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The Structure of Large-Scale Human Rights Violations Committed by Business Enterprises: A Qualitative Case Study on Disputes over the Power Cable Construction at Milyang
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Large-scale human rights violations committed by business enterprises are found all over the world in the global age. Assuming that there might be a pattern or patterns for such human rights violations, I tried to describe the structure of large-scale human rights violations committed by a business enterprise. As a methodology I conducted a qualitative case study, depending on the Grounded Theory. After collecting data mostly through interviews, I coded them into categories and finally developed a theoretical proposition. Research object was the human rights violations committed by Korea Electronic Power Corporation (KEPCO) during the construction of 765kV power cables which passed through Milyang area. Human rights at issue were environmental right and right to property. This article describes in what way KEPCO violated these human rights of Milyang villagers. The research identified 4 stages of the human rights violations committed by KEPCO. First stage was to single out human rights victims. In determining the route for power cables, KEPCO selected the land of the socially weakest. Second stage was to weaken the collective power of human rights victims, by bribing community leaders and by negotiating individually, instead of collectively. As a consequence of the second stage, community culture and ties have been seriously damaged. Third stage was to isolate human rights victims from the other part of society, with the help of mass media. Fourth stage was to forcefully suppress the resistance of human rights victims, for which state power, especially police, was mobilized. This is the structure of large-scale human rights violations committed by KEPCO at Milyang. However, Milyang is not the only place where KEPCO has abused human rights in this way. Such type of violations has been a part of its business routines ever since it ran the business. Similar types of violations can also be found in the large-scale human rights violations committed by other domestic and transnational enterprises. Thus the structure of human rights violation found in this case study might be generalized as a pattern of large-scale human rights violations committed by business enterprises. This article does not definitely argue that the structure found in this research is a pattern found commonly in most of the large-scale corporate human rights violations, but it implies strong probability for it.

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