the marine corps and recommended to establish a regulation on guidelines and methods of conducting physical checkup for new inmates and remedy the practice of enforcing monitoring by a correctional officer to be present during visitation sessions, ii) cited lack of outdoor area, excessive cooling and humidity during summer, and ineffective air circulation following field investigation of new detention facilities built as a high-rise building and recommended to refrain from adopting such high-rise building design for detention facilities, and iii) visited immigration detention facilities for field investigation and recommended to improve structure of security bars in detention rooms and enhance regular medical checkup of long-term detainees. In addition, the Commission delivered its opinions on a number of legislative proceedings including i) finding the partial amendment to the Criminal Code which can potentially violate human rights with provisions such as continuance of capital punishment and introduction of protective custody, ii) expressed concerns for infringement of right to personal freedom for the drafted law on surgical treatments including surgical castration for child sex offenders, iii) the partial amendment to the Administration and Treatment of Correctional Institution Inmates Act in which it may restrict human rights of inmates as it seeks to tighten censorship of correspondences; and iv) the Use and Protection of Deoxyribonucleic Acid(hearafter 'DNA') Identification Act which may violate or excessively restrict the right to self-determination of private information, impede the principle of presumption of innocence, and undermine the power of warrant at the request of the Constitutional Court. These activities are testimonies of the Commission’s efforts to make timely responses to human rights issues and build institutional foundation for enactment and revision of regulations that embody human rights. For the first time as a government agency, the Commission conducted an in-depth survey on the latest information and conditions of torture victims and laid the groundwork for raising awareness of the public on the severity of damage inflicted by torture and developing social remedies in the form of legal and policy measures. Introduction 21