problems. Furthermore, statistical data show that there is an increase in the cases of sexual harassment by students at school.１４ The expenditures of children’s private education are on the rise, １５ and the call for the guarantee of children’s right to play is voiced while the problems of child abuse１６ and indirect corporal punishment at school１７ are also raised. 18. Largely thanks to the formulation of the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, Remedy against Infringement of their Rights in 2007 and the NHRCK’s consistent efforts to rectify the discrimination against persons with disabilities, the ROK has witnessed a visible progress towards enhancing human rights of persons with disabilities over the last several years. Legal and institutional improvements have also been made in regard of persons with mental disabilities: for instance, a relevant law was recently revised on a full scale.１８ However, it is still doubtful whether the involuntary hospitalization rate, which was as high as 70% in 2014, will mark a significant decline sooner or later,１９ and reports are often made about the people who, thinking of the facilities for persons with disabilities as ‘noxious’ ones, are opposed to the establishment of such facilities in their neighbourhood.２０ 19. Recommendation: The Government has made many policy efforts to increase employment rates of women and younger people, but those efforts have shown little effect for the last three years. Make a thorough review on existing policy measures, and take active measures to ensure that statutory hours of work be observed, working time be reduced and decent jobs be retained and increased. 20. Recommendation: Draw up drastic measures to step up sanctions on perpetrators of sex crimes against children or minors, and take comprehensive actions at national level to tackle the alarming growth of online sexual violence and sexual violence among students at school. 21. Recommendation: It is appreciated that the Government has made efforts to improve legal and institutional arrangements for promoting human rights of persons with disabilities. However, it is concerned that there is still much room for improvement in public awareness about them and that many persons with mental disabilities are, largely involuntarily, hospitalized simply for medical treatment, instead of being provided with community care. Shift policy focus and take active measures to help persons with disabilities return to social life and promote their deinstitutionalization. Labour issues 22. The proportion of workers who are paid less than minimum wage was 11.5% of total wage earners in end-2015.２１ Moreover, although the number of workers in special types of employment (economically dependent workers, EDWs) who need similar level of protection as ordinary workers continues to grow and the number of EDW occupations also keeps growing, the legislation to protect them has not been fully introduced yet, leaving these workers outside legal protection.２２ 23. Major trade unions like the Korean Government Employees’ Union and the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union, have not been recognized as lawful. Furthermore, although the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court have shown significant changes in their positions about the cases where workers were indicted on charges of interference with business due to their 4 / 12