Surveys and Human Rights: Local Reception of International Norms, Mexico City, November 12 & 13, 2015 The Origins, Structure, and Consequences of the National Human Rights Survey of South Korea Jeong-Woo Koo Visiting Professor, Harvard-Yenching Institute Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University

Origins

The Establishment of National Human Rights Commission (NHRCK)

Survey as a Way of Monitoring Human Rights Abuses Source: www.pressian.com

Sociologists Trained in the U.S

Features WHAT HOW WHO WHY Exclusively devoted to human rights issues ISDPR(Institute of Social Development and Policy Research), Hyundai Survey Company, and NHRCK WHAT WHO WHY HOW To monitor human rights Through a nationally representative sample (N=1,500)

Principles Temporal comparability Cross-national comparability Comprehensiveness—horizontal (breadth) and vertical (depth) Particularity

Structure Horizontal: Civil and political rights; economic, social, and cultural rights; minority rights, human rights education, and human rights institutions Vertical: Knowledge/awareness, attitudes, behavior, and experiences Explanatory: Demographic, SES, social capital, media exposure, and globalism

Consequences

Little Impacts on Practices

Facilitating Research

Motivating Similar Surveys on Particular Issues and/or Groups

Supplementing Human Rights Indicators/Indexes

Giving Rise to Human rights Sensitivity Test

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