We viewed that the Korean government needs to join ILO Convention Nos. 87 and 98 to fulfill its promise to the international community to ratify the fundamental ILO conventions and to realize Korea's constitutional values through guaranteeing basic labor rights defined in the Constitution. J. Recommending That Broadcasting Companies Achieve Gender Equality Policies On December 14, we recommended that the Korea Communications Commission Chairperson amend related laws and statutes to include provisions about restricting both genders from accounting for more than 60% when appointing members of the Korea Communications Commission and Korea Communications Standards Commission and board members of public broadcasting companies to ensure gender-balanced participation in the decision-making processes in the broadcasting industry. In order to help broadcasting companies assess their own gender equality status and shortcomings, we recommended adding gender-equality items to broadcaster assessments to assess the gender ratio of each broadcaster's management and giving additional marks for its effort to achieve gender equality. To prevent the reproduction of gender biases through broadcasting, we recommended that broadcasters expand media diversity survey items by including the genre of talk-shows on current affairs, etc.; introducing qualitative assessment methods such as the gender-specific analysis of roles played by characters; and summarizing the results of media diversity surveys and distributing the summary to broadcasting content producers for reference. We recommended that the Korea Communications Standards Committee Chairperson establish a special committee on gender equality as a consultative body for monitoring broadcast programs, identifying cases that reproduced gender-based biases, and proposing improvement ideas. We conducted the Factual Survey on Gender Discrimination Committed by the Media in 2017 to investigate the positions of women as described on television and verified that jobs and roles occupied by male and female characters were still affected by gender biases. In response, we recognized the need to ensure greater participation of women across all areas and eliminate such gender biases. 48 Commission's Major Activities