Introduction Capacity building of human rights offices has become more necessary than ever as they play a central role for strengthening human rights at the local level. Human rights offices worked closely with local governments and civil society groups to identify area-specific human rights Rights Office hosted the Conference on Human Rights in Business with Local Community, and the Gwangju Human Rights Office managed a program to monitor and discuss policies to foster human rights cities. The Regional Special Human Rights Committee, which was established to increase expertise Part 1 Introduction tasks, enhance mutual understanding, and strengthen cooperation. For example, the Busan Human on local human rights issues, held a series of debates and discussions on ways to strengthen the human rights offices of the Commission. Following the death of Private Yoon who was abused and maltreated while on duty, the National Assembly installed a special committee to improve the human rights conditions in the military and change the military culture. At the same time, it continued to discuss the proposed military human rights protection officer program to improve human rights in the military. The military human rights protection officer proposal was presented as one of the Moon Jae-in Part 2 Key NHRCK Activities 5) Strengthening safeguards for human rights in the military Administration’s Top 100 state tasks when the administration kicked off in 2017. To this end, the in the ROK military and highlighted the need for a military human rights protection officer system. A task force was launched and meetings were held with human rights groups, civil society groups, and experts in support of legislation for the program. Though four related bills were presented to the 21st National Assembly, the legislative effort failed to move forward. However, in 2021, several death incidents associated with sexual violence occurred in the military, triggering more active legislative discussions in the National Assembly. Consequently, the proposed amendment to the NHRCK Act was passed (to be in effect from July 1, 2022), enabling the Commission to have military human rights protection officers and a Military Human Rights Protection Committee, and giving it the authority to investigate human rights infringement and/or discrimination against military service personnel while on duty or in barracks. Considering the difficulty of investigating death incidents in the military due to its unique, 27 Part 3 Appendices Commission took part in international military ombudsman meetings to talk about the conditions