South Korean Human Rights Monitor

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Privacy, Rule of Law
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“Big data”Used for Invasion of Privacy

Eunjung Cha February 21, 2013

The era of “big data” has arrived. Big data refers to the huge amounts of data which are thrown away because the computer cannot analyze them in its current capacity. A major example is a the large amounts of messages from the use of SNS (Social Network Service) such as “Twitter” and “Facebook”. Since a… Continue Reading »

National Human Rights Commission of Korea, Privacy
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NHRCK recommendation released: Prepare a prevention plan on illegal surveillance of citizens

Eunju Jeong February 15, 2013

On the 7th of February, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea(NHRCK) made a recommendation to the South Korean president, the Chairmen of the National Assembly and the prime minister to legislate a prevention plan on illegal surveillance of citizens. Since the establishment of NHRCK in 2001, this is the first recommendation ever made to… Continue Reading »

Children, Education
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School Violence Prevention Survey Violates Human Rights

JiEun Lee July 6, 2012

School violence prevention survey introduced by Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education has been critizised as a “portrayal of violence”. Many have expressed dissatisfaction over the content of the survey, citing that it has no relevance to the intended topic of school violence prevention. Most notably, the content of the survey included personal and sensitive matters such as asking… Continue Reading »

Education, Freedom of Expression, National Human Rights Commission of Korea
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Installing CCTV in classroom infringes students’ basic rights

Inhoe Jeong March 19, 2012

There has been NHRCK(National Human Rights Commission of Korea) judgment that installing CCTVs in classrooms can infringe student’s basic human rights, even when its purpose is to prevent school violence. Education office of Seoul asked NHRCK whether installing CCTV in classroom can be a problem regarding human rights and on 14th NHRCK answered “irrelevant to… Continue Reading »

Education, Weekly News Brief
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Weekly News Brief, Aug 7 ~ Aug 13 South Korean Human Rights

Dustin Cole August 10, 2011

In-Class Cellphone Use is Guaranteed by Human Right? Jin Jeon (jinyoungjeon@humanrightskorea.org) Yang-ok Ahn, current president of the Korea Federation of Teacher’s Association (KFTA), recently questioned whether limiting cellphone usage during school time is a violation of human rights. According to statistics, there are approximately 48 million registered cellphone users, 7,569,000 of which under the age of… Continue Reading »

Disability, Education, Weekly News Brief
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News Brief July 4-9, 2011 South Korea Human Rights

Dustin Cole July 13, 2011

Taxi Black Box: Possible Invasion of Privacy Aerim Koo (aerimkoo@humanrightskorea.org) Concerned with relatively high traffic accident rates compared to other cities and provinces, Jeollabuk-do province is beginning subsidies to install black box video recorders in taxies to encourage good driving habits. By recording fifteen seconds before and after shock or any sudden unintended acceleration and… Continue Reading »

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