South Korea's human rights commission finds weak oversight of private-sector sexual-harassment training and urges the labor ministry to tighten it
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On 26 August 2026 the National Human Rights Commission of Korea recommended that the Minister of Employment and Labor strengthen oversight of private-sector workplace sexual-harassment prevention training, which employers have been legally required to run at least once a year since 1999. It found the private sector lacks the supervisory system the public sector has. In its 2023 survey, 14.8% of workplaces said training was a brief mention at a staff meeting and 13.9% said they only distributed materials such as pamphlets; it also found sessions of under an hour tied to selling insurance or financial products. It asked the ministry to set instructor qualifications, stop counting sales-linked sessions, expand support for small workplaces, and phase out the decree exception letting workplaces with fewer than 10 employees or single-sex workforces substitute posted or distributed materials for training. No ministry response was reported.
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