Opening Speech Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, I am Hyun Byung-Chul, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. I would like to extend my sincere welcome and appreciation to all the participants of today’s conference, especially to our guests from overseas: Ms. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking of Persons, Ms. Amara Pongsapich, the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, Liezel Z. Parajas, OIC of the Women’s Human Rights Center, Jean Enriquez of the Coalition against Trafficking in Women, Professor Jennifer Burn and Suraina Pasha of Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions. My special appreciation goes out to Lawmakers Kim Chun-Jin and Kim Dong-Sung who took time out of busy schedules to be with us today. Also, I want to thank all the presenters including Yoo Young-Nim of Durebang and all the panelists including Professor Kim Hyun-Mi. Human trafficking, the subject of today’s conference, should not and must not happen in the world where live in. Due to the criticisms that there a large number of human trafficking victims in Korea and other countries of the world, however, the NHRCK started to get more involved and interest in the subject which led to today’s conference. As many of you already know, human trafficking does not simply refer to an act of kidnapping and selling a passerby. The ‘Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime’which was adopted in the 2000 UNGA provides wider definition of human trafficking. According to the definition, there are a number of instances in Korea which can be defined as human trafficking. They are migrant women who got their passport confiscated by their employer and are forced into prostitution at entertainment establishment, migrant workers who have to endure unfavorable treatment and working condition because of their unstable immigration status, and marriage migrants who marry Korean men without being given proper and accurate information on their spouse by international marriage agencies. They fall within the