educational backgrounds without reasonable cause. Differences in wages, income level, employment opportunities, or promotion according to principles of capitalistic economy which reward more compensation to those with stronger capabilities may be socially acceptable to some degrees. However, placing excessive or unjustified weight on educational backgrounds to determine a person's overall capabilities can be considered discrimination without reasonable cause. ○ Rejection of Participation of Youth in a National Traditional Music Contest Mr. Kim filed a complaint alleging that his children intended to participate in OO national traditional music contest in 2009, yet the accused, the host of the contest, offered participation eligibility only to enrolled students. As they were not enrolled to any school system, they were not allowed to participate in the contest and this, he alleged, was discrimination based on education. The accused argued that a participant who partakes in the student category of the contest and receives the first prize will be awarded a prize granted by OOOO Education Superintendent, the highest-ranking education official in the host region and that the contest category was the student category, not youth category, so they restricted contest participation eligibility to enrolled students. The Commission deemed that the reasons for school-age youth not attending schools vary significantly including economic, social, and educational environmental factors, and that any youth who are in the development phase need diverse cultural activities for balanced growth, regardless of their attendance of schools and that any youth can learn arts and participate in contests and improve their performance through fair competition with other youths and become talents leading the nation's traditional arts. It decided that, nevertheless, the act of refusing the participation of youth in a national traditional music contest only because they do not attend schools cannot be considered reasonable. Accordingly, the Commission recommended that the accused should rectify the practice of 102 Part II. Major Activities of the Commission