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NHRCK Recommends Discrimination Against Schooling in Chinese Emigrants Schools be Rectified
Date : 2006.09.28 00:00:00
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The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) has recommended that the Minister of Education and Human Resources Development devise measures to accredit schooling completed at a school for Chinese emigrants so that those students may later enter a Korean school. The recommendation comes based on the Commission’s conclusion that failure to accredit the education received at a school for Chinese emigrants catering to Taiwanese people living in the Republic of Korea is in fact a violation of the rights of Chinese emigrants to be educated in their native language and to pursue happiness, and that such a violation constitutes an act of discrimination based on a person’s country of origin.
The complainant, known only as Dam (a 50-year-old male), filed a complaint in December 2004. Dam argued that: " Any student of a Chinese emigrants school who wishes to be transferred to or be enrolled in a Korean school must go through an entrance qualification examination since Chinese emigrants schools in the Republic of Korea are not accredited. Schooling at Chinese emigrants schools is accredited by the governments of China and other countries, but not by the government of the Republic of Korea. This constitutes discrimination."
The Commission conducted an investigation into the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development, the subject of the complaint. The NHRCK determined that the refusal to accredit the schooling received at Chinese emigrants schools constituted an act of discrimination based on a person’s country of origin. The following reasons were cited: (i) for Chinese emigrants who, unlike other foreign citizens, have settled into Korean society as due members both in name and reality, the right to education needs to be promoted in consideration of their special circumstances; (ii) this promotion was already recommended in the ‘Recommendation Proposal of the National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights’; (iii) schooling received at a Korean school in Taiwan is fully accredited; (iv) international human rights conventions signed and ratified by the government of the Republic of Korea declare the right of ethnic minorities to enjoy their native language and culture, which obviously guarantees the right of Chinese emigrants to receive education in their native tongue; and (v) Chinese emigrants enter Chinese emigrants schools as a way to fulfill their wishes as an ethnic minority, to protect their identity and to cherish their cultural heritage, and human rights such as these should be respected....
