16 The Committee on the Rights of Child recommended the following to the Republic of Korea, in 2022, in its Concluding Observations from the consideration of 2nd and 3rd State party report. 68. The Committee recommends that the State party: (b) Implement the recommendations of the GANHRI Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) to establish a single independent selection committee and to ensure its financial autonomy, and strengthen its human resources, in order to ensure that the National Human Rights Commission functions effectively and independently and discharges its mandate in full compliance with the Paris Principles. 17 The Korean OECD National Contact Point (NCP) has a role to settle disputes involving multinational enterprises by implementing the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct and cooperating with other NCPs in foreign countries. In March 2018, the NHRCK recommended the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy to improve the Korean NCP system in efforts to prevent multinational enterprises from violating human rights and enhance the effectiveness of remedies for victims of such violations (NHRCK, Recommendation for the improvement of the Korean OECD NCP system, February 2018). Afterward, the Korean NCP has made changes including appointing private members. However, the ratio of government commissioners to private ones in the Korean NCP is still overwhelmingly high. Furthermore, the Korean NCP needs to be more active in resolving disputes, considering that the NCP has received the increased number of complaints but there were few cases resulting in tangible outcomes. 18 NHRCK, Recommendation for the development of the NAP for business and human rights (July 2016). 19 NHRCK, Recommendation for the improvement of the Korean OECD NCP system (February 2018). 20 In Korea, the Constitution prohibits discrimination in all aspects, and there are individual laws to regulate discrimination in specific arenas, such as the Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Employment and Elderly Employment Promotion, the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, Remedies against Infringement of Their Rights, and the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Balance Assistance Act, etc. On the other hand, the National Human Rights Commission Act provides that the act of discrimination on one of 19 grounds including sexual orientation is subject to the investigation of the NHRCK. 21 NHRCK, Opinion on the enactment of the Equality and Anti-discrimination Act (July 2020). 22 Four anti-discrimination bills, banning direct and indirect discrimination and harassment based on the twenty-three prohibited grounds of discrimination including race, sexual orientation, religion and political opinion, are currently pending in the 21st National Assembly. The 21st National Assembly session is scheduled to expire at the end of May 2024. If the bills do not pass through the National Assembly by this time, they will be repealed automatically. 23 NHRCK, Research on the Status of Hate Speech and Relevant Regulations (2016). 24 International Muslim students studying at Kyungpook National University in Buk-gu, Daegu purchased a plot of land near the university and obtained a mosque construction permit from the Buk municipal office in Daegu in September 2020. The construction began in December 2020. However, some local residents opposed to the construction of the mosque in the vicinity of their residential area. As a consequence, the Buk municipal office imposed an administrative disposition to halt the construction in February 2021. Thus, the builders filed a complaint with the NHRCK against the Buk 29