ment 17 38 16 3 4 1 1 4 9 135 114 2 19 3 34. Sexual harassment, mostly perpetrated by one’s employers or superiors at work by abusing the power relationship, is widely known to cause severe psychological and economic damages to the victims including having to receiving psychiatric treatment and/or leaving the work place involuntarily as a consequence. In one case, the NHRCK has gave a comprehensive consideration that included the location, time, subject of conversations and the adverse effect to the work environment (the victim resigned) and ruled it as a sexual harassment case where sexually derogatory expressions were made on the online instant messenger within the workplace (2016). 35. According to the fact-finding survey conducted by the NHRCK in 2012, a considerable number of servicewomen experienced direct sexual harassment in the past year (11.9 per cent, 102 persons), recognized sexual harassment damages being perpetrated against fellow servicewomen (41.3 per cent, 355 persons), or acknowledged the occurrence of sexual harassment (17. 2 per cent, 148 persons), all of which proved that sexual harassment still took place in the military. The seriousness of sexual harassment in the military is attributed to the facts that sexual violence and harassment can take place anywhere and any moment, not in particular places or settings, and that the military organization emphasizes on the hierarchy by ranks in addition to the closed-nature of the organization. 36. In the above-mentioned survey, 34 per cent of servicewomen who experienced discrimination stated that they would choose to suffer and tolerate the problems since there would be no change in sight even after raising the issue. Also, 38.2 per cent of 338 servicewomen who experienced unwanted sexual remarks responded that they did not react at all on the scene or raise the issue afterwards. Only 5.2 per cent of these servicewomen reported the instances to the Sexual Harassment Trouble Counselor or Human Rights Counselor. These servicewomen believed that the confidentially would not be guaranteed if they had chosen to report the cases, and there was clear limitation as to the counseling and settlement of the issues since these systems were under the influence of military chain of command, resulting in the servicewomen’s little expectation in the official countermeasures in the military. 11