has been further raised. Additionally, the Commission held a symposium to understand demands for policies on the rights of migrant workers, and collected feedbacks from migrant workers. It found that still there were cases where migrant workers were not paid wage and severance pay; employers do not pay migrant workers due to their unregistered status; and migrants suffer risks of industrial accidents and verbal abuses These cases indicate that the Commission needs more policies to address the current conditions. E. Addressing Discrimination against Socially Vulnerable Groups To deal with the various discrimination issues in Korean society, the Commission set its strategic objective as strengthening the anti-discrimination policies and remedies that pertain to socially vulnerable groups and laid down performance objectives to eliminate discrimination in employment and discrimination against persons with disabilities, to protect the rights of persons with mental disorder, and to advance the rights of women. The Commission monitored media reports and trends on discrimination issues and conducted preliminary investigation into serious discrimination cases. It carried out suo moto investigation and recommended to address discriminatory actions on age restriction when appointing heads of villages or counties; to revise regulations and ordinances to lift age restriction when selecting culture and tourism interpreters, staff of private schools, provincial scholarship recipients and local government officials to receive long-term training; to apply a separate set of scoring standards which take into account disability conditions when recruiting persons with disability; not to limit eligibility criteria based on educational backgrounds and majors; to address the unreasonable discrimination of deciding not to hire a person who has undergone cancer surgery; and to prohibit discrimination by position on retirement age, all of which were to correct discriminatory employment practices in Korea and to raise public awareness. The Commission also investigated current practices of recruitment process at public Introduction 29