National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea Impact Assessment and Management2), and the case study on the international practices of human rights impact assessment. It also held a conference on the human rights violations perpetrated by Korean companies overseas (February) and the first and second Human Rights Management Forum (June and November) in 2014 as an effort to spread a culture of integrating the values of human rights in the conducting of business. 3) Improving Information-related Human Rights With the development of ICT devices, the problems of personal information infringements by government entities and private firms have been widely dealt with. ICTs and human rights have received an increasing amount of attention both internationally and domestically. Under such circumstances, the NHRCK selected the improvement of information-related human rights as its featured project for its third phase of the Three-Year Plan for the Promotion of Human Rights. The objectives of the project are: i) promoting institutional improvements and establishing standards for the protection of information privacy; ii) investigating the practice of the violation of workers’ human rights including the surveillance of workers with information devices; and iii) developing measures to create a human rights-friendly online culture. In this regard, the Commission continued to endeavor to improve institutions with the goal of more effectively protecting information-related human rights by making a number of recommendations including: to revise provisions pertaining to providing 2) This tool is the result of collaboration between the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) and International Finance Corporation (IFC), in association with the United Nations Global Compact. It is designed to be a practical tool that enables companies to identify, understand, and evaluate actual or potential human rights impacts of a project at each stage of development and operations. Introduction ▪▪▪ 19