Key NHRCK Activities To come up with more practical and effective policy alternatives to address violence in ice sports, the Commission consulted with experts involved in special investigation in ice sports. As a result, it recommended the Minister of Education, the heads of local governments, and the schools or sports associations, and sexual abuse offenders from using ice rinks, conduct regular monitoring of the human rights situations through surveys of instructors and athletes, plan for increased oversight of student athletes and human right protection outside the school, increase public utility of public sports facilities by preventing monopolization and expedient use of ice Part 1 Introduction President of the Korea Skating Union to establish rules to limit persons who were disciplined by rinks, and develop a general plan to improve human rights in ice sports. The Korea Skating Union accepted the recommendations; it announced a plan to organize a special team comprising experts in human rights, laws, and sports, revise athlete registration rights situations in ice sports. Thirteen local governments (Busan Namgu District, Daegu City, Incheon City, Daejeon Seogu District, Goyang City, Hwaseong City, Gangwon Province, Chuncheon City, Asan City, Jeonju City, Gimhae City, Changwon City, and Anyang City) also accepted the Commission’s recommendations and announced their intention to include provisions that limit sexual offenders’ Part 2 Key NHRCK Activities regulations, and modify the articles of association in support of a general plan to improve human access to ice rinks, revise ordinance to increase the public utility of sports facilities for users’ On the other hand, the Ministry of Education did not accommodate the Commission’s recommendation regarding oversight of student athletes outside the school, stating that this measure can be better achieved through the Installation and Utilization of Sports Facilities Act (hereinafter “Sports Facilities Act”) rather than the Act on the Establishment and Operation of Private Teaching Institutes and Extracurricular Lessons (hereinafter “Private Teaching Institutes Act”). The Commission found the decision by the Ministry of Education to be inappropriate, given the sharp increase in private sports training since 1989 when the Sports Facilities Act was enacted, which resulted in significant blind spots in the oversight of student athletes outside the school. Also, with the exception of sports, private education in academics, skills, and art have already become subject to oversight under the Private Teaching Institutes Act. This means that, though human rights conditions inside schools have improved slightly thanks to school plans to protect student athletes, continuous human rights infringements outside of school, such as those in ice 79 Part 3 Appendices benefit, and establish a one-stop sports facility reservation system.