Key NHRCK Activities using case studies, policy recommendations, and statistics of NHRCK. Section 4 presents four basic principles and seven key tasks for promoting the rights of persons with mental disabilities, with each key task accompanied with 27 policy tasks. Section 5 provides the offices of primary The policy tasks were selected as a result of eight separate debates by the Research Committee, three separate meetings with stakeholders, and consultation with subject matter experts. They vary greatly, ranging from hospitalization and discharge procedures, hospital treatment environment, to recovery services in local communities. Notably, several medium- to long-term policy tasks are Part 1 Introduction responsibilities for each policy task. included, such as service revocation of a provision in Article 43 of the Mental Health and Welfare Act that puts hospitalization decisions in the hands of patients’ guardians, reorganization of the Hospitalization Suitability Assessment Committee into Assessment Agency with a quasi-judicial and Welfare Act with those in the Act on Welfare of Persons with Disabilities and the Act on the Rights and Support of People with Development Disabilities. B. ‌Recommendation to review policy that disallows foreigners with changed sojourn status from taking up health insurance Part 2 Key NHRCK Activities role, and alignment of the welfare and services provisions under Chapter IV of the Mental Health On March 12, the Commission recommended the Minister of Health and Welfare and determined by the Service” in Appendix 9 of the Enforcement Regulation of the National Health Insurance Act to include long-term sojourners who had health insurance status for a certain period of time,” so that foreigners who entered the country with a long-term sojourn status and had health insurance can keep their insurance even if their sojourn status was changed to one not qualified for the insurance. The Commission rejected a petition (20-jinjeong-0732400) filed by a foreign worker that his right was violated by the National Health Insurance Service because the latter did not allow him, a long-term sojourner in Korea, to take up health insurance because of a change in his sojourn status. The rejection was made because national health insurance-related matters are part of the state’s obligation to promote social guarantees under Paragraph 2, Article 34 of the Constitution, and thus do not fall under the investigation authorities of NHRCK. Instead, based on a conclusion 41 Part 3 Appendices the President of the National Health Insurance Service to modify the provision on “persons

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