Introduction National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016 conducting a survey of human rights education in public officials training institutes, school teacher training institutes, and colleges. It also laid a foundation for increased cooperation in human rights education through Memorandums of Understanding (Daejeon Municipal Government, North Jeolla Provincial Government, Busan Municipal Education Office, and Dongguk University) and organized various target-oriented discussion meetings with professional education groups for infants, older persons, homeless people, the military, and college staff. The Commission also strove to develop, distribute, and make use of human rights educational contents to raise public awareness. These include three types of human rights essays (Human rights through pictures, and Children human rights for parents), human rights educational textbooks (Media guidebook on human rights, Sports meets human rights), and three types of cyber contents (Sports and human rights, Businesses and human rights, Various kinds of stories 1 & 2). In 2016, the Commission laid out an overall plan for dedicated human rights instructors and launched programmes to train human rights instructors and enhance human rights sensitivity. The programmes to train trainers are available in 11 areas, including infants, children, the disabled people, and social workers. It also helped raise the effects of education by organizing visiting human rights lectures for directors of daycare centers jointly with the Incheon Metropolitan City government, and running human rights education jointly with the Ministry of National Defense, the National Police Agency, and local governments. Promoting human rights The Commission reinforced the effectiveness of human rights promotion through the media. It actively engaged with the media through interviews and press releases, while improving the press release manual. It also diversified its promotional platforms to include Facebook, Podcasts, and blogs, while identifying and producing various human rights contents such as videos on legal precedents, webtoons, essays, and photos. On the occasion of the 1st Human Rights Week (25 November – 10 December), the Commission carried out human rights promotional activities both online and offline, including exhibitions and radio advertisement. Other efforts to raise public awareness include the opening 14