Recent legislation—in particular, the Foreign Workers' Employment Act (2004) and Support for Multicultural Families Act (2008)—have improved the situation of immigrants, more efficiently protecting their human and labor rights.[1] In 2011, the South Korean military abandoned a regulation barring mixed-race men from enlisting, and changed the oath of enlistment to reference Korean citizenship instead of ethnicity.[2] Similarly, related concepts have been withdrawn from school curricula.[5] This has been accredited in part to international pressure—in particular, concern from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which stated persistent ethnic-centric thinking in South Korea "might be an obstacle to the realization of equal treatment and respect for foreigners and people belonging to different races and cultures".[5]