This report discusses some of the main human rights issues in 2022. The report examines
the issues related to basic human freedom, alienation and discrimination faced by social
minorities, human rights violations occurring at workplaces, human rights topics important
to the future society and the issues related to North Korean human rights, and also
addressed human rights issues under disaster. Above all, the report tried to present the
direction for our society by describing the improvement plans on each topic from the human
rights perspective.
Comprehensively describing and making appropriate assessments on human rights issues
in Korea over a period of one year is a very difficult and careful task. However, in a rapidly
changing society, it is an important and necessary task to publish a report that can inspect
the individual human rights issues and comprehensively track the changing circumstances
of human rights.
I would like to thank all the people who helped in publishing this report. This is the
second report, and I hope this report will contribute to protecting and improving human
rights in our society.
Human rights are the foundation that sustain our lives and society. The National Human
Rights Commission of Korea will continue to strive in protecting the human rights value of
our society.
April 2023
Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea
Song, Doo-hwan