Commission's Major Activities
National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016
[Table 2-2-3] Discrimination complaints received in the last five years
(in number of cases)
Classification
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in
use of educational
facilities and others
Discrimination in goods and services
Land
659 1,285 6,942 4,121 3,265
772
629
28
242 9,057 1,373
81 1,454 5,957
2016 2,432
66
90
15
26
13
89
25
-
6
14
42
93
479
349
325
88
55
4
40
861
249
8
257
835
2015 2,187
58
123
14
34
16
141
27
-
9
19
50
104
595
489
298
104
41
2
16
950
89
3
92
550
2014 2,197
65
123
14
47
27
72
41
1
14
15
70
86
575
287
401
101
81
2
18
890
106
3
109
623
2013 2,496
56
158
9
41
15
46
27
2
30
11
53
169
617
449
377
40
83
-
20
969
98
8
106
804
2012 2,549
125
138
11
27
21
112
35
1
58
23
44
178
774
420
473
56
107
1
37 1,094
170
9
179
503
Sub-total
Commercial
facilities
Vocational training centers
Services
Transportation
201
Educational
facilities
Retirement
233
Sub-total
Retirement age
Residential facilities
Loan
6
Goods
Non-wage payment
256
Sub-total
Wage
903
Others
Promotion
248
Termination
Education
Placement
379
Total
108
Recruitment
Cumu23,410 1,219 1,445
lative
Year received
Hiring
Others
* The cumulative figures total the numbers from the time the Commission was established (25 November 2001) to 31 December 2016.
B. Complaints by reason
Looking at the entire discrimination-related complaints (a total of 23,410) received by the
Commission from the time it was established to December 2016 and analyzing them by reason,
10,970 complaints were related to disabilities, accounting for 46.9%. This was followed by
discrimination for reasons other than the 20 specified in the table, which stood at 3,201 (13.7%).
Sexual harassment-related complaints totaled 2,184 (9.3%), followed by discrimination for
social status reason at 1,904 (8.1%). In 2016, the trend was generally similar to that observed
in 2015, with a continuous rise in discrimination complaints for sexual harassment over the last
five years.
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