- According to the Annual Report on Personnel Innovation Statistics (2016) of the Ministry of Personn el Management, women accounted for 49.4%, almost half of the total public officials. However, the fig ure barely reaches 11.3% for female officials with grade 4 or higher, 3.4% for senior civil service, and 7.1% (9 out of 126) for public officers in political service. - Although the government announced the Five-year Plan for Enhancing the Representation of Women i n the Public Sector through the joint efforts of eight department on 21 November 2017, the UN Com mittee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, expressed its concern in the 8 th Concludin g Observations(2018) that the targets of 21% of female officials of grade 4 or higher and 10% of fem ale senior civil servants are low. 2) Questions - Please present measures to guarantee effectiveness of Article 47 (4) of the Public Official Electio n Act which prescribes that when any political party intends to recommend its members as candi dates to run in the election for National Assembly members of local constituency and in the elect ion for local council members of local constituency after their term of office expires, such politica l party shall work to recommend not less than 30/100 of the total number of the candidates to r un in the election for nationwide constituencies from among women. - Please specify stance on a plan to increase the target number of female officials in the Five-yea r Plan for Enhancing the Representation of Women in the Public Sector. 10. Death Penalty 1) Current Status - Korea is on a de facto moratorium of execution of the death penalty as there has been no execution for the last 20 years since 30 December 1997. However, 61 are still on death row. - The death penalty is a punishment that is limited to the heinous crime, and it is argued that it is ne cessary to punish such a crime by the death penalty, considering the cruelty of the crime and subseque nt extreme pain and loss suffered by the family of victims and the emotions of the people. - Meanwhile, on 10 September, 2018, the NHRCK, believing that the death penalty has to be officially abolished, recommended to the government to join the second Optional Protocol to the International C ovenant on Civil and Political Rights for the abolition of death penalty considering the following fact: