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The importance of industrial technology is enormously growing in the age of limitless competition. Because the superiority of advanced science technology is directly linked to national power. So many countries around the world not only dashed into the research and development of industrial technology but also enacted laws and regulation to protect themselves from losing advanced science technology. Korea have developed very rapidly in the field of technology, especially in IT technology. This means that Korean companies are now no exception of the global economic espionage. So, it is necessary for the Korean government to revise the relevant laws and regulation for the effective enforcement on the industrial spies. In Korea, the legal Regulation of industrial technology outflow has been prescribed with the revision of the Unfair Competition Protection Law on Dec. 31. 1991, and has become effective since Dec.15.1992 to cope with the foreign trade pressure from the WTO/TRIPs negotiations. Nevertheless the revised Act does not provide enough criminal protection against economic espionage. so, Unfair Competition Protection Law was revised in 1998, 2004. And Industrial technology outflow Prevention and Protection Law(the Technology Outflow Prevention Law) was be established in September.2006. So, This study intent to explain the Legal Regulation of industrial technology outflow, especially Unfair Competition prevention and Business Secret Protection Law and Industrial technology outflow Prevention and Protection Law and reviews legal confliction of two major laws and suggests methods to solve the confliction fundamentally.