1. 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

2. Origins

3. The Establishment of National Human Rights Commission (NHRCK)

4. Survey as a Way of Monitoring Human Rights Abuses
Source:

5. Sociologists Trained in the U.S

6. 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)

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

8. 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

9. Consequences

10. Little Impacts on Practices

11. Facilitating Research

12. Motivating Similar Surveys on Particular Issues and/or Groups

13. Supplementing Human Rights Indicators/Indexes

14. Giving Rise to Human rights Sensitivity Test

15. Thanks for Listening!
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