The Report on Human Rights Situation in the Republic of Korea C. Main Topics 1) Efforts to Enact the Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Act A) Awareness on Hatred and Discrimination and the Motion for the Equality Act Discrimination not only impedes individual’s enjoyment and exercise of the basic rights but is a main factor that causes social conflicts. Therefore, regulating discrimination is a mechanism for respecting the diversity of the members of the society and in resolving social conflicts from discrimination. The Korean Constitution also states that the principle of equality is the key to guaranteeing the basic rights. However, according to the online hate speech survey conducted in May 2021,73) 59.5% of the respondents thought that hatred and discrimination in Korean society had ‘increased’ since COVID-19 (great increase 22.9%, slight increase 36.7%), which is 10 times the respondents who thought they had ‘decreased,’ at 5.3% (slight decrease 4.7%, great decrease 0.7%). Also, 90.2% responded that the actual social conflict will intensify depending on the result of the hate speech used in Korean society. Only 26.1% of the respondents agreed with the opinion that ‘the discrimination phenomenon will resolve itself naturally.’ adolescent LGBTQ. However, we hope to deal with it in more detail in the following the Report on Human Rights Situation in the Republic of Korea, and the issues of human rights of LGBTQ in 2021 will be dealt with in the areas related to discrimination and hatred and human rights in the army. 73) NHRCK, ‘Online Hate Speech Survey”, May 2021. 74