around Jan., announced legislation on May 25, and will be enforced from Mar. 2023 through partial revision on Dec. 5. The revised Foreigner Protection Rules includes the introduction of human rights protection officers at the Immigration Office, the specification of special protection procedures, the addition of types of protective equipment, and the specification of how to use them, and during the revision process for about a year, there was a controversy regarding the introduction of a new type of protective equipment. The Ministry of Justice initially prepared a plan to add ‘ankle protection equipment, protectors, protective chairs, protective clothing, protective beds’ to the ‘security equipment,’ such as police batons, gas guns, and electroshock weapons, and the ‘protective equipment,’ such as handcuffs, harnesses, and head protection equipment, but the NHRCK presented an opinion that it is necessary to reconsider the introduction of security equipment and some protective equipment (handcuffs, protective chairs, protective clothing, protective beds, etc.) and to prepare safety standards.251) Moreover, some media and civic groups expressed objections by stating that the additional protective equipment violates international human rights standards and may violate human rights.252) In the end, the revised Foreigner Protection Rules limited the types of protective equipment to two-handed handcuffs, one-handed handcuffs, guards, belt-type harnesses for the upper body, belt-type harnesses for the lower body, vest-type harnesses, and head protection equipment. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Justice announced that it would change the women's protection building of the Hwaseong Immigration Detention Center to an open protection facility from April.253) The Ministry of Justice has stated that the purpose is to improve the facility into human rights-friendly facilities and significantly strengthen the treatment in response to the criticisms on the human rights issues, and it announced that it would remove iron bars in the women's protection building, open the daytime playground, prepare an internet computer lab and mobile phone space, install convenience facilities including vending machines and dryers, and remodel the entire facility. 251) NHRCK, Decided on Mar. 3, 2022, Expression of opinion on ‘Partial Amendment to the Foreigner Protection Rules.’ 252) Statement by the Joint Committee on Responding to a Case of Torture at the Immigration Detention Center, May 31, 2022. 253) MOJ Press Release, Apr. 7, 2022. 101