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Compared to the past when cosmetology was categorized into only single type of industry, contemporary cosmetology in the 21st century becomes specialized and diversified into more various sub-categories. As of Year 2003, domestic 2.5 million cosmetologists yield about 53 trillion Korean won0 per annum in Korea. Implicitly, every law involves all norms or standards of social groups under the collective normativeness of legal codes as provided by upper group, so that it may help overcome any personal difference or conflicting interests, split opinions and interclass isolation in all our communities and groups, while facilitating a certain social unity. Ultimately, law suggests a comprehensive and integrated social norm beyond each subordinate norm. It can be asserted that legal stability may be maintained as a function of law by keeping public order through statute law based on human and social realities according to the characteristics of law as described above. With an overview of cosmetological or related laws that provide social roles of cosmetologists and also imply a part of our daily life, this study intends to address and outline the historical circumstances and follow-up transitions of Hairdresser & Cosmetologist Act, Public Sanitation Act and Public Sanitation Management Act with regard to their enactment. This study first looked into laws and regulations relevant to cosmetology in Japan and USA(New York and California) as the foundation of advanced cosmetologist acts. Next, this study demonstrated why it is necessary to enact cosmetologist acts to meet current Korean cosmetological circumstances and the era of globalization, and thereby suggested promising developmental directions in the future.