Rights, etc. and the Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Employment and Elderly Employment Promotion. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea Act is an organization act which focuses on procedures to petition against and provide the relief of discrimination, limiting the possibility of conceptually defining diverse reasons for discrimination and entailing various areas subject to anti-discrimination. Due to this restriction, the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination against Disabled Persons, Remedy against Infringement of Their Rights, etc. and the Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Employment and Elderly Employment Promotion have been enacted as individual anti- discrimination laws. 5. The Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act and the Gender Discrimination Prevention and Relief Act have been established in 1987 and 1999 respectively as laws for anti-discrimination against women and equality. Still, The Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act is confined to gender discrimination in employment. The first individual law which applied prohibition of discrimination based on gender to all areas, the Gender Discrimination Prevention and Relief Act, was repealed in 2005 during the law rearrangement through the unification of organizations for discrimination remedy. 6. Therefore, in order to redress gender discrimination in various areas such as increasing hatred against women and online sexual violence and reinforce relief for victims, an act on prohibition of gender discrimination is required based on an approach as a substantive law. Since the prohibition of gender discrimination is part of a comprehensive anti-discrimination law, some might argue that a separate gender discrimination act would have no substantial benefits. However, it would be more effective in discrimination prevention and victim relief if a comprehensive anti-discrimination law is enacted to serve as an umbrella (higher law or proper law as a common ground for all anti-discrimination acts) for antidiscrimination acts on individual grounds and areas and additionally other antidiscrimination laws by reasons and areas are also established based on their distinct characteristics.