National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2015
the Commission issued a recommendation to School A on June 10th, to revise its statutes to
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its students’ general right to the freedom stipulated in Article 10 of the Constitution. Therefore,
include regulations regarding the matter.
The Commission accepted a complaint that a job posting from a university required all
applicants to be “Christians in accordance with the founding philosophy of the school”,
which appealed that it is an unfair discrimination in employment oriented from one’s religion.
Therefore, the Commission issued a recommendation to the said university on June 17th, to
revise its articles of association that restricted non-Christians to apply for a job opening at the
school to prevent discrimination.
D. Policy recommendations to secure the right to education for over-aged people
with disability in residential care facilities
The Commission, in January, accepted a complaint that a handicapped person was not eligible
for special education due to his age, appealing that it should be deemed as a violation of equal
rights and the right to education. However, it dismissed the case because imposing an age-cap
for special education cannot be considered as a case of discrimination or violation of the right to
education as stipulated in Article 3 of the Act on the Special Education for the Disabled Persons, etc.
However, the Commission decided that it is necessary to provide an education opportunity for
people in this case, where they cannot receive proper care and protection from their guardians,
and ended up missing their chance to receive the compulsory education.
Therefore, the Commission issued a recommendation to the Minister of Education to revise
related guidelines so that over-aged people with disability in residential care facilities could gain
access to special education. In addition, it included the mayors and governors of 17 provinces
and cities, along with the Minister of Education, for another recommendation on June 30th to
expand its lifelong education facilities and education courses so that over-aged people with
disability who missed their chance for the compulsory education could have access to education
of an equal level.
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C. Religion-oriented discrimination in employment at a university