be exempted from obligation. Thirdly, Article 9 of the ‘Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Crimes of Domestic Violence’ defines ‘the Crime not prosecuted against Objection of the Victim’ and this shifts all the responsibility of decision making on punishment or non-punishment of assailants onto the victims under the name of respecting the victims’ wishes. [8] Responses to Increasing Hatred of Women (List of Issues 10) 33. The issue of hate crimes including misogyny became a national issue after the killing of a woman near Gangnam Station in May 2016. Following this incident, the NHRCK conducted a ‘Fact-Finding Survey on Hate Speech and Countermeasures’ in 2016 and the National Assembly also made legislative efforts including the establishment of an anti-discrimination law to respond to hate crimes, although no legislation has been enacted. Currently, the only law that regulates hate speech is the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, Remedy against Infringement of their Rights, etc. (Article 32 (Prevention of Harassment)). 34. According to the above-mentioned fact-finding survey by the NHRCK, all respondents (about 1,000 people) including women, persons in sexual minority groups, disabled persons and migrants felt fear of hatred, were concerned that they might be the target of hate crime, and even concealed their identity in some cases, and over half of the respondents said that they did not know how to deal with both online and offline hatred. <Table 7> Fear of Hatred (Unit: %) Groups/Levels of To a certain Not at all Not much 16.8 19.2 49.0 14.9 4.7 10.5 52.2 32.5 Disabled persons 8.0 21.5 45.5 25.0 Migrants 27.0 20.6 33.3 19.0 Fear Women Sexual minority groups degree Very much