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Recommendation on Right to Be Let Alone [2004] KRNHRC 39 (1 May 2004)

The complainant filed a case stating that the local government applied for permission to
build a nuclear waste disposal site without collecting opinions of the local residents, forced
local government officials to make a tour through the atomic power station, and demanded
statements on the reasons for absence from those officials who could not go on the tour,
which was in violation of human rights of local residents and the local government officials.
The Commission recommended that attention be paid to prevent a similar incident from
reoccurring regarding the inappropriate acts of relevant organizations revealed in the course
of promoting the Nuclear Waste Disposal Management Facility Construction Project. As for
the act of forcing officials who failed to make the field trip to submit statements of their
reasons for absence, the Commission recommended that the statements be returned to the
officials concerned and no retribution be taken against the officials concerned, and that
attention be paid to prevent reoccurrence of such a case.