게임 이용자들은 게임을 즐기기 위해 유료 콘텐츠를 구입하게 된다. 이는 미성년자도 마찬가지 이다. 미성년자가 게임 콘텐츠를 할 때 가장 많이 이용하는 결제 방식은 각종 상품권을 이용한 결제이다. 이 외에도 이용하는 결제 방식은 휴대폰 과금에 의한 결제, 부모의 신용카드 정보 입력을 통한 결제 등이 있다. 그런데 이러한 결제 방식은 그 편리함으로 인하여 보다 용이하게 결제가 이루어짐에 따라 그에 따른 분쟁 또한 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 이러한 미성년자 게임 결제와 관련된 분쟁에 의해 이용자와 게임 사업자가 모두 피해를 보고 있어서 경우에 따라서는 사회적 문제로 대두되기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 분쟁을 예방하고 효율적으로 해결하기 위해 먼저 미성년자 게임 결제와 관련이 있는 법제도를 조사ㆍ분석하고, 미성년자 게임 결제 관련 분쟁사례를 분석함으로서 미성년자 결제에 대한 환불 정책(제도) 표준화를 위한 자료를 제시하고자 한다.

Today we live in a global village owing to the development of transportation and communication and almost one of ten couples in Korea are married with a different nationality every year. In addition, divorce cases between international marriage couples are increasing rapidly. As families form and dissolve across international borders, domestic family law does not adequately address the needs of parents and children with ties to multiple legal systems. The international parental child abduction exemplifies these complex issues. When the child has been taken or kept overseas by one of the parents, that child may suffer from linguistic, social and cultural barriers and the left-behind parent may have difficulties in finding or recovering a child. Accordingly, it is necessary that the international parental child abduction should be handled differently considering the differences with child kidnapping within the country. The international society(Hague Conference on Private International Law) adopted the “Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction(Hague Child Abduction Convention)” in 1980 and South Korea acceded to the Hague Child Abduction Convention on December 13, 2012, whereby South Korea became the 89th contracting nation to the convention. However, considerable number of marriage immigrants in Korea came from countries such as China, Vietnam and the Philippines and these countries are not party to the Hague Child Abduction Convention. In this respect, the effectiveness of the international civil remedy through the Hague Child Abduction Convention is being questioned. The Supreme Court of Korea declared the defendant(Vietnamese female marriage immigrant) not guilty on June 30, 2013. The defendant took a 13 month old baby to her native Vietnam without husband’s consent and she was charged with kidnapping and transporting kidnapped person to foreign country. In this ruling, there was a fierce theoretical battle between Justices and 5 of 13 Justices wrote a dissenting opinion. As the divorce rate of multi-cultural family is raising, the number of korean parents who suffer from problems related to international child kidnapping by foreign spouses is on the increase. Under these circumstances, this Supreme Court judgement has a significant meaning. This paper reviews this Supreme Court judgement mainly with the established requirements of kidnapping minor and transporting abductee to foreign country.