Commission's Major Activities National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2016 While recognizing that the intent of the said recruitment examination is for the central or local governments to hire outstanding high school graduates from a given area to change the hiring practice that focuses on academic background, the Commission considered the fact that freshmen of specialized vocational high schools and Meister high schools are recruited from around the nation. The Commission determined that the restrictive qualification allowing only those who graduated from a school and resides in a given area of jurisdiction constituted a discrimination without a justifiable reason and unduly limits an applicant's right to take public office. Hence, on 25 May, it recommended that the head of the local government abolish the restrictive eligibility criteria. 70