Part 1 Korea’s Human Rights Status in 2021 Diagram 1-2 Time Series Trend on Social Distance for Elected Politicians (Unit: %) Note: 1) Percentage of responses to “uncomfortable (very + slightly)” to the question of which group do you feel uncomfortable being elected politicians. 2) People over the age of 19. Source: NHRCK, ｢Korean National Human Rights Survey｣, 2021. The people’s perception shown from these statistics are measured from a subjective aspect and cannot explain all aspects of Korea’s human rights status, but is an important piece of information on how the series of human rights programs are actually operating in daily lives. The specific meanings of these statistics will be analyzed in the future, and in Part II, we will describe the human rights status and topics in major areas. 9