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6. Promotional activities to enhance awareness
A. Promotion through media
In 2016, the Commission distributed a total of 170 press releases to the media, posting
them on its website and other online platforms. The press releases helped announce through
newspapers, TV, SNS, Internet, and other media channels the various human rights agenda
investigated and remedied by the Commission, and its pending policy issues. This has
contributed to raising public interest and understanding of human rights and creating a social
consensus.
internal awareness on these activities, the Commission produced a media public affairs manual
practice for department chiefs in order to raise their crisis management competitiveness and
awareness of current issues.
B. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Human Rights Week
celebrations
The Commission operated a human rights exhibition booth in front of the Shinhan Bank’s
Financial Center in Myeongdong from 6 December to 8. The booth featured a human rights
counselling booth and various interesting exhibitions for people to learn about human rights,
allowing a large number of Myeongdong visitors to think about human rights.
The celebration of the 68th Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 15th anniversary
of the Commission held on 9 December at the KBS Art Hall was a great success, with the
presence of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Chief
Justice of the Constitutional Court, as well as foreign envoys from ten countries, including the
Ambassadors of Germany, Finland, and Uzbekistan.
The Korea Human Rights Award Ceremony was also held in tandem. The award went to
Father Park Mun-su and activist Lee Gyeong-hye. Awards also went to individuals and groups
involved in human rights activities.
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and distributed to all departments. It also conducted media training consisting of theory and
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To raise the efficiency of its public affairs activities with the media and to share a heightened