Enforcement Rule of the Act on the Acquisition of Land, etc. for Public Works and the Compensation". However, the Government revised the Enforcement Rules of the Urban and Living Environment Improvement Act in order to narrow the eligibility scope of the compensation for relocation costs available to tenants, citing an objective of preventing incidence of moral hazards, including fraudulent tenancy registration. This could make a large number of tenants ineligible to such compensation. Considering that more than 70% of the residents in the New Town Development areas are tenants, it is feared that the tenants might be relocated without being fully compensated. 64. NHRCK recommended in June 2009 that the Government, noting that the compensation for relocation costs was intended for social security purpose, should ensure that the rights and interests of tenants are fully guaranteed with regard to the compensation for relocation costs, in revising the Enforcement Rules. Nevertheless, the Government did not accommodate the NHRCK' submission and published the original version with no modifications as final in August 2009. 3. Forced Evictions and Forced Removal (235-238) 65. Forced removal and forced evictions in the course of urban renewal may take diverse forms: insufficient prior measures, forced demolition of a house where people are still living, physical clashes in the process of forced removal or forced removal at an inappropriate time. There occur physical clashes among the residents who are for and against the urban renewal project. It has been criticized that, with regard to these clashes, the competent authority which is responsible for preventing and restricting such violence is not active enough to perform its responsibilities. Meanwhile, the employees of security service providers are sometimes dispatched to the site of urban renewal to conduct forced evictions themselves, and this act might constitute a criminal offence as it is beyond the permitted business scope of security service providers defined in the Private Security Act. Some forced evictions and removal were carried out in the wintertime or at nighttime, increasing the likelihood that the human rights of the residents would be violated because of the untimeliness. 66. The Yongsan Tragedy of January 2009 is a good example of the ongoing problems involved in urban renewal in this country, including reckless actions for forced evictions and insufficient prior consultation and compensation. The tenants of store buildings in Yongsan who were subject to eviction staged a demonstration in protest against the 19

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