Ahn Chang-ho, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, presides over the 21st plenary session at the commission in Jung-gu, Seoul, in the afternoon on Nov. 24. /Courtesy of News1

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said on the 2nd it will openly recruit candidates for Human Rights Commissioner. The move is to select a successor to Standing Commissioner Kim Yong-won, whose term ends on Feb. 5.

The open recruitment period runs from today through the 13th. The Candidate Recommendation Committee for Human Rights Commissioner, composed of seven Commissioners, will select three to five times the number of candidates through document screening and interviews and recommend them to the president within this month.

Application forms for candidates can be downloaded from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) website.

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