1) Current Status - After a woman was murder near the Gangnam station in Seoul in May 2016, the issue of hatred inc luding hatred against women has become a social issue. - In Korea, expressions of degradation and defamation against women, people with disabilities, senior c itizens, migrants, and sexual minorities are rampant as seen from the expression of hatred against the Yemeni refugee applicants in Jeju Island in 2018. - The 2016 Research on Realities of Hate Expression and Regulation Measures by the NHRCK, 94% of sexual minorities, and 79% of people with disabilities have experienced hate expression against them online and 51% of migrants have same experience offline. - As such, hatred is deeply settling down in people’s everyday life, leading to aggravating social confli ct. It also violates the dignity of social minorities, reproduces and consolidates systematic discriminatio n, threatens democracy and undermines social integration. 2) Questions - Please provide detailed roadmap to broaden social awareness on the seriousness of hatred and devise effective measures to respond. 26. Domestic Violence and Marital Rape 1) Current Status - Article 297 of the Criminal Act requires to prove that the rape entails ‘means of violence or threat’ to be recognized as crime of rape. - The number of domestic violence cases has increased from 160,202 in 2013 to 264,528 in 2016 ,and the number of home protection cases under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Crimes of Domestic Violence has increased from 494 in 2012 to 19,834 in 2016(CEDAW/ C/KOR/ CO.8). - Since the purpose of this act is to maintain and rebuild the family, among 16,868 home protection c ases in 2015, 43.4% did not entail any punishment, and to people who have violated the restraining or der, only administrative fine was imposed. - The UN CEDAW recommended in its 7th and 8th Concluding Observations in 2011 and 2018, respect ively, to place the lack of free consent of the victim at the center of the definition of rape and crimin