NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – July 2022 Introduction □ National Human Rights Commission of Korea ㅇ The National Human Rights Commission of Korea(hereinafter referred to as the “Commission”) was established as an independent organization to protect and promote human rights under the National Human Rights Commission of Korea Act on November 25, 2001. ㅇ The Commission plays the role of a monitoring organization that promotes, protects and monitors domestic implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities(hereinafter referred to as the “Convention”) by conducting investigations on complaints of discrimination and human rights violations on the basis of disability submitted by individuals, groups, or representative organizations and providing access to remedies, making recommendations and expressing opinions to improve laws, systems, policies and practices related to discrimination against disability, and conducting factfinding researches on the human rights situation of persons with disabilities as well as ex-officio and onsite investigations. □ Assessment of Korea’s Report ㅇ After receiving the 1st Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Government has made numerous efforts to implement the recommendations. First, the disability classification system was improved and a comprehensive service support survey that considers the demand and environment of the persons with disabilities in addition to medical criteria is being introduced. The government also amended the Act on Promotion of the Transportation Convenience of the Mobility Disadvantaged Persons(hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act on the Mobility Disadvantaged’) on January 18, 2022, and amended Article 15 of the Act on Welfare of Persons with Disabilities which excluded persons with psychosocial disabilities from the application of the Act on Welfare of Persons with Disabilities due to overlapping support system although they are recognized as the persons with disabilities under the law(December 21, 3