National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea response, the Commission has exerted good faith efforts to ensure the diversity and transparency in the selection and appointment of its commissioners by proposing the “Partial Amendment to the National Human Rights Commission Act” and preparing the “Guideline Regarding Principles and Procedures on the Selection/Appointment of Commissioners of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea”. The third review of the NHRCK by the ICC-SCA is scheduled to be conducted in March 2015. As a quasi-judicial body which can take remedial actions, the NHRCK continued to make great efforts in 2014 to promote the accessibility of the complaints filling system. The Commission was active in promoting the effectiveness of its investigations and remedial actions. Moreover, special investigations and suo moto investigations contributed to the active response to undisclosed human rights violations and conventional discriminatory acts. Considering the sustained concerns over human rights violations in the military, the Commission especially created an exclusive team on human rights in the military on August 29 and carried out suo moto investigations. As such, the NHRCK has made consistent efforts to prevent human rights violations in the military despite a myriad of difficulties due to the lack of investigators dedicated to human rights issues in the military. Given the ever increasing number of complaints submitted to the Commission, it is expected to see a rise in the filing of complaints and greater need for suo moto investigations and on-site investigations with important social human rights issues multiplying and the human rights sensitivity of society enhancing. Therefore, the NHRCK needs to continuously strengthen its efforts to ensure it has a satisfactory number of investigators and achieves internal capacity building, while opening new regional human rights offices with the aim of improving the accessibility of local residents to human rights services along with providing investigations and remedies Introduction ▪▪▪ 23