News Brief July 4-9, 2011 South Korea Human Rights
Taxi Black Box: Possible Invasion of Privacy Aerim Koo (aerimkoo@humanrightskorea.org) Concerned with relatively high traffic accident rates compared to other cities and provinces, Jeollabuk-do...
View ArticlePayment System for the Deaf Launched
(the image above is unrelated to the content of this article) Last year, 10 deaf citizens presented a petition to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) regarding the unfair fees of...
View ArticleCourt Bans Sign Language Interpreters
The movie “Silenced” is about the rape of children with disabilities at a school and how it was kept a secret . The movie was released in 2011 and drew more than 4.5 million viewers. After the movie...
View ArticleThose With Disabilities Should Vote
“I want to vote, but there are too many steps.” This was the complaint Jae Bosun made as he attempted to climb the stairs to vote on the 24th a few days ago. The problem Bosun was had was that the...
View ArticleOpening up the Web to the Physically Disadvantaged
Opening up the Webpages to the Physically Disadvantaged Ranking number one as the most wired country in the world, Korea is at the forefront of internet technology with innumerable online communities,...
View Article“We want to go to a school nearby!” Students with disabilities plea
The Ministry of Education announced its 5-year plan for special education which will take place starting this year until 2017. Its main focus is on expanding the number of textbooks according to...
View ArticleDiscrimination Against People with Disabilities Persists
Korean media outlets published several reports addressing discrimination against people with disabilities. These reports coincided with the United Nations (UN) International Day of Persons with...
View ArticleHumiliation and Begging: Feelings associated with going to the community...
“Whenever I went to the Community Resident Center, I felt like I was begging. Because of the look of blame in their eyes that asks why are you not employed at that age, or the stare of suspicion that...
View ArticleSuffering Two Times Over: The Tears of the Families of Crime
On November 11th, 2012, Kim’s (51, male) daughter was reported mysteriously found dead at the boarding school for disabled children she was attending. The school stated that the accident occurred when...
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