eviction of the homeless staying in the Seoul Station. However, despite urgent needs for protection and advancement of the rights of low-income people and vulnerable labor groups amid growing income disparity, it was not effective in identifying policy agenda, reviewing policies and responding to human rights issues in this regard, which indicates a critical need for in-depth review. D. Promoting Human Rights of Multicultural Society Under the strategic goal of improving the rights of migrants in a multi-cultural society, the Commission set performance objectives of developing more human rights-oriented multi-cultural policies, protecting the rights of migrant workers, advancing the rights of female migrants, and protecting the rights of children born to multi-ethnic families. These performance objectives are set primarily to more effectively respond to increasingly diversifying human rights issues faced by migrants and build the groundwork for human rights-friendly multi-cultural society at a time when Korean society has become a de-facto multi-cultural society owing to growth in migrants. The Commission determined that it should be desirable for Korean society to be more human rights-friendly multi-cultural society by enacting and implementing migrant policies, systems and regulations with a focus on human rights protection, and enhancing social understanding on the rights of migrants. Therefore, it sought to reach consensus and raise public awareness by recommending to formulate the guidelines on the rights of migrants, and to develop measures to allow those who are in the process of appealing the court decision to reject their application for refugee status to seek job opportunities so that the claimants and their families can enjoy the minimum dignity as human being until the court makes a final decision on their refugee status. The Commission also guaranteed the rights to work of migrant workers and laid the foundation to improve human rights conditions of multi-ethnic society by making a number of recommendations: expanding the scope of acceptable reasons for migrant Introduction 27