We recommended the provision of around-the-clock activity support services to ensure the safety of people with serious disabilities during the severely hot season, thereby leading the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Seoul Metropolitan Government to announce their plans to take necessary steps and improve their related systems. As for a case of sexual harassment and secondary damage that occurred at a local press organization, we made sure that the petitioner did not suffer from a hostile working environment. Our recommendation to remedy the discriminatory act of denying non-public-official staff members the opportunity to take part in a sports competition of a local government as athletes led to the removal of restrictions only applied to public officials. We recommended that social welfare facilities stop verifying the fingerprints of their employees for calculating overtime pay and come up with alternative methods, while also urging the imposition of severe disciplinary action against a chairperson of the board of a public corporation who coerced corporation staff to run his/her personal errands during on-duty hours and verbally abused them. We newly established one bureau, two divisions, and one team in July 2018. The previous Investigation Bureau was divided into the Civil and Political Rights Bureau and Discrimination Remedy Bureau to more effectively and adeptly remedy human rights violations and discrimination. We also newly established the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Division, Armed Forces Human Rights Investigation Division, and Gender Discrimination Remedy Division, thereby further reinforcing our expertise in relevant areas. The establishment of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Division represents our efforts to deal with polarization, the improvement of the social safety net, and seniors' human rights in a preemptive manner. The Armed Forces Human Rights Investigation Division, formerly the Military Personnel's Human Rights Team within Investigation on Civil and Political Rights Division 1, was set up to serve as the single channel for all human rights issues concerning the military. The investigation scope was expanded to apply to all human rights violations and discrimination committed in the process of performing military duty and systematized to deal with cases concerning conscripted police officers, firefighters, social workers, and public health doctors. We strived to establish the Gender Equality Division in order to more effectively prevent and remedy gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. However, it was decided, after the discussions with the government, that the temporary Gender Discrimination 34 Introduction