Annual Report 2013
enterprises for voluntary examination of their own implementation of
human rights management and voluntary improvement of shortcomings.
The Commission also expressed its opinion on the bill on the support for
the return-home of Korean foreign direct investment firms. In detail, it
stated that it is advisable to exclude those Korean firms from the list of
beneficiaries in case they have violated human rights overseas.
In addition, the Commission contracted out an Investigation on
Human Rights Violations of Korean Foreign Direct Investment Firms
and Research on Legal and Institutional Improvement (May ~ October),
which analyzes the human rights violations of Korean foreign direct
investment firms by country and business type, and then proposes legal
and institutional improvement measures for the prevention of human
rights violations and remedial actions thereof.
B. Major Activities
1) Opinion on Human Rights Laws and Policies
□ Opinion on the bill on the support for the return-home of Korean foreign direct
investment firms
The press and civil society organizations have continuously brought
into question the human rights violations (e.g., interference with trade
union creation, battery of workers and swearing, overdue wages) of
Korean foreign investment firms. The bill on the support for the
return-home of Korean foreign direct investment firms, which was
proposed on March 21, 2013, however, have provisions for the support
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II. Major Activities of the Commission