of sexual violence, and build the systems to monitor the implementation of the
repeated crime prevention policy and accumulate and evaluate the relevant
information and data. The Government is invited to make further efforts to implement
this recommendation.
4. Other Forms of Exploitation (Article 36 of the CRC)
Child Entertainers (CRC/C/KOR/3-4, para. 45-2)
99. According to the interview-based survey of 103 child entertainers conducted
by the Youth Policy Analysis & Evaluation Center in 2010, 47.6% of them had missed
more than half of the daily school lessons every week; 34.1% couldn’t find enough time
for their homework; and 40% didn't have their right to education fully guaranteed. The
survey also showed that 35.9% of the respondents worked 8 hours or longer a day;
10.3% worked 40 hours or longer a week; and 41.0% worked nighttime or holiday
hours. Another concern is that they are increasingly regarded as sexual objects. The
survey found that 10.2% had ever 'overexposed' their body parts, 60% of whom were
forced to do so. It was also revealed that they suffered insomnia (64.3%) and took
medication for depression (14.3%).
100. It is welcomed that, in November 2010, the Government announced its
plan to establish the legal foundations for protection of child entertainers from sexual
exploitation, guarantee of their fair entertaining activities and protection of their
physical and mental health and their right to learning, and to upgrade the legislation and
institutions for that purpose. However, the process of legislation has not initiated yet to
protect human rights of child entertainers, including their right to learning and labor
rights. The Government needs to take positive actions to ensure that the law to
protect human rights of child entertainers is formulated.
Underage Athletes (CRC/C/KOR/3-4, para. 515)
101. According to the NHRCK's 2006 survey of the 746 students in the sport
teams at elementary schools, 74.3% of the respondents experienced verbal violence,
74.9% suffered physical violence and 14.9% suffered sexual violence while in athletic
activities. The 2008 Study on the Status of Human Rights of Athletes, which was also
conducted by NHRCK, shows that 78.8% of the athletes in middle or high school
experienced violence and 63.8% suffered sexual violence, including sexual harassment,
sexual assault and rape. It was found that the average number of regular class hours of
an underage athlete in secondary school was 2 hours when he/she was in a competition,
and 4.4 hours when he/she was not, which was by far shorter than that of ordinary
students. Furthermore, 82.1% of the respondents said that they didn't have
supplementary lessons for what they had missed.
102. NHRCK recommended in 2007 that the Government, with a view to
protecting and promoting human rights of underage athletes, should take comprehensive
actions to guarantee their right to learning, improve their social adaptability by
removing the closed environment (lodging house), introduce the 'minimum educational
attainment accreditation system', prevent violence against underage athletes and
improve the ways in which competitions for underage athletes are processed. The
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