www.humanrights.go.kr the Commission determined that age was not a necessary condition for flight attendant job performance as their duties entailed offering passenger services and ensuring their safety. Hence, on 31 August, the Commission recommended that XX Airlines come up with remedial plans to ensure that applicants were not disadvantaged because of their age in the flight attendant hiring process in Korea. E. Discrimination based on ideology or political belief ● ‌Discriminatory questioning about political preference during a job interview at a public In a job interview with XX Institute, the complainant was asked whether he was conservative qualifications for the job. An investigation revealed that an interview board member did in fact ask such a question. The Commission viewed that possibly discriminatory questions should be prohibited regardless of their intention, as it is very difficult to prove discriminatory intent during an oral interview. The Commission determined that asking an interview question about political preference is discrimination based on ideology or political belief. Hence, on 21 September, it recommended that the director of XX Institute come up with ways to prevent a recurrence and to ensure that discriminatory questions irrelevant to job performance capability are not asked during the hiring process. F. Discrimination for other reasons ● Restrictions placed on school qualification in recruitment of local public officials The complainant filed a petition that he was ineligible to apply for the local public official recruitment examination owing to a restrictive eligibility criteria (requiring that both the school and residence of the applicant be located in the area of jurisdiction of the recruiting entity). The said examination is designed to hire graduates of specialized vocational high schools and Meister high schools from the area of jurisdiction. 69 Commission's Major Activities or progressive. He filed a complaint that such a question was discriminatory and irrelevant to his Part II service-related organization