National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2015 Part II F. ‌Recommendations following the suo motu investigation on residential shelters for homeless people The Commission accepted a complaint on human rights violation cases at a residential complainant and failed to specify the defendant for a part of the petitioned details. However, the Commission went ahead and conducted an on-site monitoring on the facility in question, and secured more than enough evidence and testimony that witnessed continued acts of human rights violation on homeless residents of the place. The findings led to a decision by the Rectification Human Rights Violation Committee II to conduct a suo motu investigation on the shelter on March 18th. The investigation unveiled the terrible situation punctuated by an atrocious violation of human rights: the facility personnel would both physically and verbally abuse the residents, make them punch each other, force them to sit on their knees while holding up a heavy fire-extinguisher, and exploit their labor for farming. Even worse, the facility director’s husband exercised an absolute dictatorship at the shelter: he was illegally pocketing the subsidies and public benefits from the local government, allowance, and pension benefits from the residents with disability, and veterans’ benefits and basic pension from the rest. After the revelation, the said facility voluntarily declared a shutdown and closed on June 25th in accordance with the regulations in the Social Welfare Services Act, and the residents moved into other facilities. Therefore, the Commission has issued recommendations on July 15th to the Metropolitan government to: 1. ‌take measures to claw back the capital that was illegally taken and spent on anything else out of purpose by the facility personnel; 2. ‌make the facility personnel return the embezzled capital, including the allowance and pension benefits from the residents with disability and veterans’ benefits as well as basic pension from the rest, to the residents concerned; and 3. ‌strengthen supervision and inspection on social welfare facilities in the city and come up with the necessary preventive measures. As a result, the Metropolitan government is planning to claw back the funds illegally received by the facility (118.46 million KRW) and the capital to be redirected to the residents by the end of 2015. In addition, the city government also notified the Commission that it agreed to Part II Major Activities of NHRCK | 23 Major Activities of NHRCK shelter in City A on April 14th, 2014. In the process of investigation, it lost contact with the