eviction of the homeless staying in the Seoul Station. However, despite urgent needs for
protection and advancement of the rights of low-income people and vulnerable labor
groups amid growing income disparity, it was not effective in identifying policy agenda,
reviewing policies and responding to human rights issues in this regard, which indicates a
critical need for in-depth review.
D. Promoting Human Rights of Multicultural Society
Under the strategic goal of improving the rights of migrants in a multi-cultural society,
the Commission set performance objectives of developing more human rights-oriented
multi-cultural policies, protecting the rights of migrant workers, advancing the rights of
female migrants, and protecting the rights of children born to multi-ethnic families. These
performance objectives are set primarily to more effectively respond to increasingly
diversifying human rights issues faced by migrants and build the groundwork for human
rights-friendly multi-cultural society at a time when Korean society has become a de-facto
multi-cultural society owing to growth in migrants.
The Commission determined that it should be desirable for Korean society to be more
human rights-friendly multi-cultural society by enacting and implementing migrant
policies, systems and regulations with a focus on human rights protection, and enhancing
social understanding on the rights of migrants. Therefore, it sought to reach consensus and
raise public awareness by recommending to formulate the guidelines on the rights of
migrants, and to develop measures to allow those who are in the process of appealing the
court decision to reject their application for refugee status to seek job opportunities so that
the claimants and their families can enjoy the minimum dignity as human being until the
court makes a final decision on their refugee status.
The Commission also guaranteed the rights to work of migrant workers and laid the
foundation to improve human rights conditions of multi-ethnic society by making a
number of recommendations: expanding the scope of acceptable reasons for migrant
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