Opinions on the first National Report of Korea on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities services needed, the enforcement decree of the Act on Activity Assistant Services for Persons with Disabilities limits the eligibility of applicants to only persons with disability grades 1 and 2, and the fact that they cannot select, employ or manage their activity assistants and the services provided are excessively limited have also been highlighted as problems. ③ According to the results of the 2011 Survey on the Status of Persons with Disabilities by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 198,000 persons with disabilities responded they need someone else’s support for doing most activities in daily life but only 29% of persons with disabilities who need activity assistants received such services. In addition, 27.8% of persons with disabilities responded ‘I have difficulty in going outside (the house) because there is no one to accompany me.’ This shows that the lack of activity assistants may result in the contraction of social activities of persons with disabilities. ④ In 2014, the activity assistance allowance was increased to an amount equivalent to 392 hours a month, or roughly 13 hours a day, including both basic allowance and additional allowance. However, the allowance amount was not set on the basis of needs of individual persons with disabilities. Rather, the amount was unilaterally set conditional to recognition scores, thus failing to accurately reflect the needs of individual persons with disabilities. It also raised the problem that some people get less allowance than they actually need or others get more than they need. 2) Recommendation ① Since persons with disability grade 3 or below are not eligible for activity assistance under the current system, it is necessary to ease the qualification of persons allowed to apply for the assistance, by excluding the grades of disabilities from the qualifications of persons eligible for activity assistance, and instead qualifying persons with disabilities for the allowance based on the NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 20