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- Awarded teams for the 10th Contest on Proposals for Public Interest/Human Rights Activity Program
- Published 2020 BKL-Dongcheon LSR Report

- Selected organizations to support in 2021 Public Interest/Human Rights Program (Project expenses and research funds provided to 6 organizations)
- Yong Hyeon Kang appointed as the 5th president of Dongcheon Foundation

- Won a lawsuit which recognized affirmative action under the ‘ACT ON THE PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES’ to secure proper space for wheelchairs on the two-level buses
- Conducted the 7th NPO Legal Support Group Training Program for lawyers

- The plaintiff, represented by BKL and Dongcheon lawyers, was successful in an administrative lawsuit appealing the Ministry of Justice decision of non-recognition of refugee status
- Won a case at the lower court level, in the revocation trial of government’s non-recognition decision of regufee status
- Participated in opening ceremony of the Team Gwanghwamun One and signed a business agreement with other 17 institutions
- Launched the 1st Social Economy Accelerating Program (Selected three organizations to provide on-going legal support free of charge for one year)

- Published the 7th volume of the annual Public Interest Law Paper Series
- Hosted a forum on “Current Status and Improvement Directions of Corporate Public Interest Foundation”
- Represented an Iranian refugee applicant to win the lawsuit to be recognized as a refugee, setting a precedent that the right to family reunification of the refugees was admitted for the first time by the court
- BKL and Dongcheon signed MOU with ‘Save the Children’ on legal advice on heritage donation

- Co-hosted the first Refugee·Immigrant Mock Trial Competition

- Participated in the ‘Project Re’, a resource circulation promotion campaign based on the collective agreement with ‘Seoul Social Responsibility Network’

- Selected the first ‘Dongcheon Fellow Public Interest Lawyer (Region)’
- Won a litigation to cancel government’s decision, which refused to disclose information on the Comprehensive Survey for service support for the handicapped
- Won a lawsuit to revoke government’s decision to reject refugees’ application for social rental houses