1 Report of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea for the Pre-sessional Working Group of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Ⅰ. Introduction 1. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (hereinafter, the NHRCK) hereby submits this report to the eighty-second Pre-sessional Working Group of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (hereinafter, the Committee) to prepare the List of Issues prior to the review of the 5th and 6th periodic report of the Government of the Republic of Korea (hereinafter, the government). The NHRCK, as an independent national human rights institution, would like to present information on the current status and questions with regards to the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereinafter, the Convention) to provide reliable information to the Committee to refer to in drafting the List of Issues. 2. This report, in consideration of the Guideline regarding the form and content of periodic reports to be submitted by State parties (CRC/C/58/Rev.3), divides the issues related to the rights of the child into eight clusters and presents information on current status and questions in each area.