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To take professional and systematic measures against School Violence, IN 2004 the「ACT ON THE PREVENTION OF AND COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS」 (“School Violence Prevention Act”) was enacted. Although this Act has been revised many times in the last decade, it still has lots of problems that must be solved. So this study points out the problems of the School Violence Prevention Act and proposes improvement measures especially in the violence prevention education, relationships with other Acts, and response system Based on the Constitutional Meaning and Legal Nature of the Act. From a Constitutional standpoint, School Violence Prevention Act can be regarded as means to perform the duty of State to protect the Youth and guarantee the Fundamental Rights, and to exercise the power to institute and manage the Educational systems. Therefore, It should consider the special characteristics of adolescents and school education’s purpose. In this regard School Violence Prevention should be the first goal of the Act and place mediation and restoration above disciplinary action. In conclusion, there are three main factors to be improved in School Violence Prevention Act. First, more specific requirements about violence prevention education should be set down to achieve substantial results of education. Next, School Violence Prevention Act first be applied to other Acts like the 「Criminal Act」, and the measures took on the former should be a factor in judicial procedures according to the latter. Lastly, it is reasonable that the 'autonomous committee for countermeasures against school violence’ established in each school(Article 12) should focus on the prevention of school violence and the 'Regional Coordination Committees for Countermeasures against School Violence' established in each Si/Gun/ Gu(Article 10-2) handles school violence cases.