Issue 21. Child Protection Agency 68. According to the 2017 National Child Abuse Status Report by the MOHW and the National Child Protection Agency, the counselors in the child protection agencies worked about 2,886,071 hours in the year of 2017, which means about 3,853 hours per person. The clinical psychological therapists in those agencies worked a total of 437,490 hours in the same year, which means about 6,730 hours per person. Considering that, in practice, the adequate hours and days of work per year are 1,960 hours and 245 days for a counselor and 1,852 hours and 231 days for a clinical psychological therapist, the adequate numbers of counselors and clinical psychological therapists required to perform the work in the child protection agencies as of 2017 are, respectively, 1,472 and 236 persons. However, the actual numbers as of December 1, 2017 were 749 and 65, which are much short of the adequate numbers. 69. Moreover, although the workers in the child protection agencies whose job is to visit a site of child abuse upon receiving a report of child abuse are supposed to perform such tasks as require the use of compelling force, like restraining an action of child abuse, separating the abuser from the child victim and taking an emergency measure about the child victim, including the transfer of the child to a protection facility or a medical institution, those workers are ordinary employees, not civil servants. 70. In step with the inauguration of the NCRC which is to take over the work of the National Child Protection Agency in January 2020, the Government pledged, in the Policies for Children toward Building an Inclusive Society released in May 2019, to reorganize the child protection agencies into the agencies specialized in the management of child abuse cases and transfer the work of child abuse investigation to the civil servants in charge of social work at municipalities (si, gun and gu). 71. In this regard, the expertise on investigation should be simultaneously transferred from the child protection agencies to those civil servants at municipalities, and the Government should develop and disseminate the models of child abuse case management and set the right roles of the child protection agencies and support their work, including by linking them with the relevant service providers in local communities, in order to ensure that stronger protection is given to the victims of child abuse. Issue 22. System to protect victims of child abuse 72. In April 2019, a child (age 12) who reported her stepfather to the police for having sexually abused her was murdered by the stepfather about 18 days later from her report. According to the NHRCK’s investigation of this case, the child victim, after being abused by her biological father in 2016, lived together with her biological mother and the stepfather, but 18