This study aims to face common threats from the depletion of fish resources, the decline of production and employment as well as the increase of life risk in East Sea Rim countries, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia due to the Chinese fishing fleets entering East Sea. The recent competition in fishing among fishing vessels and fleets of national origin operating in the East Sea has induced a significant change in the ecological landscape of the fishing fleets cluster while having influenced production and employment in the fishing industries of South Korea and Japan as well as life threat on the fishermen in North Korea. It seems that the population organizational ecological theory can be applied to this change. It can be seen as the isomorphism of the selection process over the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to avoid the environment in which these North Korean fishing vessels are pushed against the Chinese fleet in the North Korean part of the East Sea. To resolve the fishery disputes or conflict in the common waters in East Sea, first of all, Chinese fishing fleets will be required to put international pressure so as to solve the unfairness of the illegal fishing and overfishing by the International Fishery Organization or the UN violations of the sanctions against North Korea selling fishing rights to China. Although it is not easy for South Korea to cooperate with North Korea in the short term, South Korea will be able to support the fishery infrastructure in North Korea in the mid- to the long-term to prevent the loss of innocent lives for their fishermen and to raise their incomes.

본 논문은 우리 나라 해운 기업에 있어서 여성인력활용의 저해요인과 개인능력, 성차별에 대한 인식을 조사함으로써, 여성인력의 중요성과 특수성을 검토하고 해운산업 내 여성인력 활용실태와 성차별을 진단하기 위한 것이다. 즉, 해운산업에 있어서의 여성인력의 활용과 그 저해요인, 개인능력 및 성차별에 대한 인식차이를 분석함으로써, 해운기업들의 여성 인적자원관리상의 문제점과 그 해결방안을 제시할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다. 결론적으로 우리 나라 해운기업들의 인식에 있어서, 실증조사결과, 우리 나라 해운기업들의 인식에 있어서, 여성인력활용의 고용저해요인과 개인능력 및 성차별정도에 대해 남녀간에 통계적으로 유의적인 인식의 차이가 있었다. 그리고 여성인력의 성차별은 직무성과에 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 실증분석 되었다. 즉 해운 산업특유의 여성인력활용에 대한 배타적 인식의 수정이 시급히 요구되는 결과를 보이고 있다.