KoreanLII:About

What is KoreanLII? It is a Website providing "Korean law in English via the Internet".

KoreanLII is a legal information institute (LII) committed to the "Free Access to Law" Movement like other LIIs in Korea. On November 25, 2013, Law Times (법률신문) carried an article about KoreanLII for the first time in Korea.

With respect to LII's three aspects, major topics and issues, and the purpose of KoreanLII, see KoreanLII.

History
KoreanLII was first proposed by Whon-il Park (at IBT Forum), Professor of Law, Kyung Hee University on the occasion of GLIN Conference (Blog article) in Seoul on September 9, 2010.

He meant Wikipedia-like Korean law website, i.e., anyone may post a legal article and anyone may edit it. As a prototype he tried to make a KoreanLII blog at Naver in September 22, 2010.

At that time, Prof. Park supported "Free Access to Law" movement via the Internet, and proposed to build up an integrated website providing "Korean law" content in English for free.

He expected it possible in a short period of time when a number of volunteers, so-called collective intelligence (Blog article), are willing to contribute their professional knowledge to KoreanLII.

"For the extension of legal information contents in a short period of time, a Wikipedia-like portal site compiled by means of collective intelligence (at Wikipedia) based on Web 2.0 would be highly effective."

Prof. Park asserted such an idea again at the "Law via the Internet" Hong Kong Conference (Invitation to Conference) in June 2011.

Organization
At present, KoreanLII is operated by Kyung Hee Institute of Legal Studies (ILS). KoreanLII server has been located on campus at Kyung Hee University with URL addresses of koreanlii.or.kr or koreanlii.kr.

KoreanLII allows and encourages its contents to be used for such English classes as global corporate finance, IT law, North Korean law, etc. on campus.

Contributors
Finally Prof. Park started to post some articles at KoreanLII from September 28, 2011. His assistant, Mr. Hyun Joun Kim, computer scientist, designed the main page and set up other utilities by adopting the highly useful Wikimedia tools.

In this regard, collaborators who are committed to the purpose as mentioned above and at the KoreanLII page are welcome heartily.

Policies
Consequently KoreanLII policies from contribution of articles to editing or copyright issues are supposed to be same as those of Wikipedia unless otherwise specifically mentioned in the sections of Help and Disclaimer.

Most of KoreanLII text may be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike (CC-BY-SA).