Part 1 Korea’s Human Rights Status in 2021 Ⅱ. Korea’s Human Rights Status 2021: Focusing on People’s Awareness The world experienced threats to life and safety and the social and economic crisis due to the spread of COVID-19. On the one hand, COVID-19 allowed the human rights problems that existed to show itself more clearly. It showed how weak the rights of social minorities could become under disaster situations, and the blind spots of human rights were exposed. This was also confirmed by the survey related to the people’s awareness and attitude on human rights. According to the result from the Korean National Human Rights Survey conducted by the NHRCK (Dec. 2021), 36.3% of the people responded that Korea’s human rights conditions is improving as compared to the previous year, which is 0.5%p lower than 2020, and 26.1%p lower than 2019.2) Graph Assessment of the Human Rights Status (2019-2021) Statistics Assessment of the Human Rights Status (2019-2021) (Unit: %) Classification (Year) 2019 2020 2021 Ratio 62.4 36.8 36.3 Note: 1) Ratio of people who answered “slightly getting better,” and “much better” to the question of “ how is the human rights status in Korea when compared to previous year.” 2) People over the age of 19. Source: NHRCK, ｢Korean National Human Rights Survey｣, 2021. 2) This includes “Very much” and “Slightly” 5