Introduction B. Special Programs Active Response to Spread of Hate Speech Notably, in response to social issues that emerged in 2020, it issued a chairperson’s statement on Part 1 Further to 2019, the Commission continued programs to prevent and eradicate hate speech. rising hate speech amid COVID-19 response, analyzed COVID-19 and big data on hate, carried during the 21st legislative elections. In 2020, the Commission saw the education and the press/media community making declarations on self-regulation against hate speech, and managed a variety of educational and promotional activities. These efforts were replicated in other domains, including online, sports, state organizations, and private businesses, and helped foster wider consensus on preventing hate speech and its evil impacts. C. Feature Program: NHRCK Capacity-Building Monitoring implementation of recommendations and improving petition processing To ensure effectiveness of recommendations, the Commission monitors status of their implementation on a semiannual basis. For recommendations that are not accepted, it releases to the media the intent of the recommendations and the reason why they were rejected by the respondent institutions. In 2020, nine recommendations that were not accepted were publicly announced in the media, including the recommendation to three private colleges to correct discrimination based on religion against teaching staff applicants, recommendation to the Namyangju City Government to correct discrimination against indefinite-term contract workers in the provisions relating to official holidays, recommendation to the Gyeonggi-do Provincial Government to stop excluding handicapped persons aged 65 years or older from the home care assistance program, recommendation to the Gyeonggi-do Provincial Government to correct discrimination against immigrants in COVID-19 emergency relief payments, and recommendation to the National 21 Introduction out the nation’s first state-sponsored survey of transgender people, and monitored hate speech