National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea Guidelines for Business and Human Rights and Checklist which were made available with public and private enterprises in December 2013. The Commission expressed its opinion on the draft bill on the Support of Home Coming of Korean Foreign Direct Investment Firm. In its opinion, the Commission pointed out that support restriction provisions in the bill should be considered to exclude U-turn Korean foreign direct investment firms with a history of human rights violations in foreign countries. The Commission's Investigation on Human Rights Violations of Korean Foreign Direct Investment Firms and Research on Legal and Institutional Improvement may be cited an important effort to prevent human rights violations of Korean foreign direct investment firms and to propose improvement measures to devise remedial action for the victims. C. Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the Promotion of Human Rights With the development of ICT devices, the problems of personal information violations by government entities and private firms have been widely dealt with. ICTs and human rights have received an increasing amount of attention both internationally and domestically along with the enactment of the Personal Informational Protection Act in Korea. Under such circumstances, the NHRCK included the improvement of human rights with regard to ICTs in its Third Three-Year Action Plan as one of its featured projects. The objectives of the project are: i) promoting institutional improvements and establishing standards for the protection of information privacy, ii) Introduction ▪▪▪ 21