In its most recent actions, the NHRCK, based on “the basic research for the development of the Human Rights Index” which was conducted last year, carried out “a study for establishing an index pool for the development of the National Human Rights Index” with which the Commission developed an index pool that will be used as a framework to set up an index next year. In 2013, the Commission plans to select and run on a trial basis a series of factors that will be quantified via the National Human Rights Index. The Commission aims to complete the development of the Human Rights Index by 2014 so that the Human Rights Index can be used to assess across the country on a regular basis for each human rights area and for separate regions. B. Improving Human Rights Protection for the Underprivileged and Underrepresented “The Three-Year Plan for the Promotion of Human Rights” mainly focuses on people such as migrants, the elderly, children, youth and people residing in various kinds of care facilities who are socially vulnerable. Korea is recently going through an accelerated multicultural and aging transition, but legal and institutional improvements as well as changes in social recognition have not been keeping step with the new changes. Such a reality has been incorporated in the plan. It also attempted a comprehensive approach to some of the newest social issues, such as the human rights of children and youth and the human rights for people living in mental health facilities and in other welfare facilities for children, homeless people and the elderly. In detail, the Commission pursued the objectives of i) improving the human rights of migrants in a multicultural society, ii) enhancing the human rights of the elderly, iii) improving the human rights of children and youth, iii) guaranteeing the human rights of people residing in social facilities. As pertains to the human rights of migrants, the NHRCK was the first in Korea to have 18 Part I. Introduction