Responsibility for refugee protection should not rest solely with the government, according to participants in the Korea Refugee Forum, held at Seoul National University of Education on Dec. 9. Instead, forum participants said, meaningful protection and integration requires collaboration across sectors, communities and institutions. This “whole-of-society” approach encourages long-term thinking about social inclusion, coexistence and access to services, rather than focusing only on short-term asylum procedures. As the first national-level forum dedicated exclusively to refugee issues, the event highlighted the intensification of forced displacement in recent years due to a combination of conflicts and wars, persecution, human rights violations and the global climate crisis. Organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Mission to Korea, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, Refugee Human Rights Network and Refugee Research Network, the forum was held in alignment with this month’s Global Refugee Forum Progress Review Meeting at UNHCR headquarters