28 Introduction changes to reduce discrimination against temporary workers, lowering the wage gap in the labor market, supporting parents during childbirth and nurturing period, reducing work hours, and creating customized jobs. Also, the fostering of women leaders for a gender equal society, expanding the maternity leave program, addressing human rights issues in North Korea through dialogue and international cooperation, potential privacy issues in the transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and human rights issues as they relate to the information society were also part of the Commission’s proposed Top Ten Human Rights Tasks for the new administration. NHRCK Innovation Committee Immediately after Chairperson Lee Sung-Ho came into office, the Commission launched an Operation Improvement Task Force in December 2015 to increase its operational efficiency and ensure timely response to current issues in the following year. Based on assessed remaining shortfalls, the Commission launched an Operation Innovation Task Force in June 2017 to discuss about innovations, and not just improvements. The task force presented 19 innovation tasks to facilitate prompt response to human rights issues and raise the transparency of its operations. Based on an assessment that it would be difficult for internal members to identify critical innovation tasks in just three weeks, the task force proposed organizing the Innovation Committee with experts from outside the organization. The Commission agreed with this proposal and, on 30 October, the NHRCK Innovation Committee (hereafter “Innovation Committee”) was launched comprising 12 external experts and human rights activists, and three internal personnel. The Innovation Committee published its first recommendation on 27 December. The Committee recommended that the Commission admit its human rights infringement against disabled human rights activists who were holding a sit-in at the Commission’s headquarters in December 2010, including failing to take appropriate actions to safeguard their safety, and it publicly apologize for the death of an activist who had taken part in the sit-in. Chairperson Lee attended a service held in memory of the activist and offered an official apology. The Innovation Committee presented 13 recommendations during the three months it was in operation before it closed on 29 January 2018. The Commission is currently working to put the Committee’s recommendations into action.