National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea Chapter 3. Evaluation and Challenges In 2013, the NHRCK proposed the new administration of Korea 12 Challenges for Human Rights in the beginning of the administration. On its own part, the Commission put in a lot of efforts to achieve performance in meeting the strategic goals of the Third Three-Year Action Plan for the Promotion of Human Rights, 2012-2014. In particular, the NHRCK has paid attention to the promotion of social rights including the right of labor. It has been very active in issuing policy recommendations and opinions with regard to how to promote the basic rights of labor and the social safety network, especially for the social underprivileged groups such as the indirectly employed workers, workers of special labor types, etc. In addition, it has been very active in securing prompt remedial action for the related complaint cases. In order to promote the protection of human rights of the socially vulnerable groups, the NHRCK reflected the important points of the 2013 Survey on Human Rights Conditions on many of its policy recommendations including the Policy Recommendation for the Promotion of Human Rights of Female Soldiers. This way, the Commission tried its best to make actual human rights improvement take place. Facing the emerging issues of human rights, the NHRCK enthusiastically put forward with activities to spread corporate culture of respecting human rights, to promote information human rights, to improve human rights in North Korea, among others. The NHRCK conducted a suo moto investigation into the illegal Introduction ▪▪▪ 23