1. Professor Chung Chin-Sung at the Department of Sociology of Seoul National University was elected as a 
founding member of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Election in Geneva on March 26. 
Professor Chung served as an alternate member of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection 
of Human Rights from 2000 to 2004 and as a member of the Sub-Commission from 2004 to 2007. The 
length of tenure for newly elected founding members was decided by lot to be in between 1to 3 years, and 
professor Chung was given the incumbency of 2 years.

2. The Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council is an organization that replaces the United Nations 
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the main subsidiary body of the former 
Commission on Human Rights. It will serve as a think tank that studies protection and promotion of human 
rights and provides advisory opinion to the Human Rights Council. 

3. With professor Chung’s election as a founding member of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, 
ROK is expected to make more contributions to the international efforts to protect and promote human rights 
along with the member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Shin Heisoo 
and the chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Lee Yanghee.    



                                                          Spokesperson of MOFAT

* unofficial translation