Human Rights Commission Appoints Park Chan-woon as Standing Commissioner and Yang Jung-sook as Non-standing Commissioner

New Standing Human Rights Commissioner Park Chan-woon

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] Park Chan-woon, a professor at Hanyang University School of Law, has been appointed as a standing member of the National Human Rights Commission, and lawyer Yang Jeong-sook has been appointed as a non-standing member. The newly appointed human rights commissioners will serve a three-year term starting from the 13th.

Newly appointed standing commissioner Park Chan-woon passed the 26th Judicial Examination (1984), served as chairman of the International Solidarity Committee of the Lawyers for a Democratic Society (1995?2001), vice chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Korean Bar Association (2003?2005), director of the Policy Bureau of the National Human Rights Commission (2005?2006), member of the Seoul Metropolitan Human Rights Commission (2016?2019), and police reform commissioner (2017?2018). Before his appointment as a human rights commissioner, he was president of the Human Rights Law Association, a member of the Police Investigation Policy Committee, and a professor at Hanyang University School of Law.

Commissioner Park Chan-woon has accumulated over 30 years of practical experience in various human rights fields as a lawyer, public official, and university professor, along with academic research achievements. He introduced the duty lawyer system at the Seoul Bar Association to enhance the protection of criminal suspects' human rights during investigations, and as chairman of the International Solidarity Committee of the Lawyers for a Democratic Society, he worked to view and improve human rights issues through the lens of UN international human rights norms.

New Non-Standing Human Rights Commissioner Yang Jeong-suk

Newly appointed non-standing commissioner Yang Jeong-sook passed the 32nd Judicial Examination (1990), served as a member of the Ministry of Justice Treatment and Custody Review Committee (2006), member of the Human Rights Advocates Advisory Group (2008), vice president of the Korean Women Lawyers Association (2012), member of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s Public-Private Task Force for Fact-Finding and Memorial Projects on the Issue of Japanese Military Comfort Women Victims (2015), member of the Human Rights Committee of the Korean Bar Association (2017), member of the Legal Support Committee for Migrants and Refugees (2017), and member of the Central Administrative Appeals Committee of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (2017). She is currently practicing as a member lawyer at the Seoul Central Law Firm.

Commissioner Yang Jeong-sook has protected the human rights of detainees and others in blind spots by serving on the Ministry of Justice Treatment and Custody Review Committee and the Human Rights Advocates Advisory Group. As a member of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s Public-Private Task Force for Fact-Finding and Memorial Projects on the Issue of Japanese Military Comfort Women Victims and the Legal Support Committee for Migrants and Refugees, she has actively contributed to promoting the human rights of women, migrants, refugees, and other minorities, engaging in various activities to protect and enhance human rights in our society.

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