Costs of lawsuit shall be borne by the defendant.

A. National civil rights committee is a central administrative agency established for the purpose of protecting the fundamental rights and interests of the people, securing the propriety of administration, and contributing to the establishment of clean public service and social climate through the treatment of grievances and the improvement of unreasonable administrative systems related thereto pursuant to the former Act on the Prevention of Corruption and the Establishment and Operation of Civil Rights Commission (amended by Act No. 16324, Apr. 16, 2019; hereinafter “former Act”). Where it is deemed necessary to improve Acts and subordinate statutes, other systems, policies, etc. in the course of investigating and treating grievances, the civil rights committee may recommend or present reasonable improvement to the heads of relevant administrative agencies, etc. (Article 47 of the same Act) and the heads of relevant administrative agencies, etc. shall give them an opportunity to present their opinions in advance (Article 48(1)1 of the same Act to the head of the civil rights committee for the purpose of providing them with an opportunity to present their opinions during the period of service at least 2 months prior to the date of recommendation for improvement (Article 48(1)4)1 of the same Act).

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The improvement of the national civil rights committee's social system of civil petition of this case is to improve the system of civil petition of this case [the reasonable improvement of the system of payment of performance-based bonus to short-term noncommissioned officers (No. 5, No. 2; hereinafter "the system of this case")], and to seek opinions from the Minister of National Defense, who is a relevant administrative agency, about the improvement of the system of this case. < Amended by Act No. 12748, Jun. 19, 2014>