SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In a milestone celebration this month, Blind, the community application allowing professionals to engage anonymously, is commemorating a decade of service since its launch in South Korea. According to data released by Blind on December 7, the app boasts a user base of 6 million in the country, with a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — There are many posts complaining about reverse discrimination against men on Blind, an anonymous community app for the workplace, a women’s think tank said Tuesday. The Korea Women’s Development Institute categorized and analyzed 2,672 organizational culture-related comments posted on the Blind app during the period from August 2021 to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Instant noodle makers are introducing braille packaging for the blind. Samyang Foods Co. said Tuesday that it will release a cup noodle edition of Buldak Bokkeummyeon (hot chicken-flavor type) and the Samyang Ramen, inscribed with braille, this month. The Korean words for “Buldak” and “Samyang” will be inscribed in [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The top prosecution office has decided to add a voice conversion barcode for visually-impaired persons to various notices it sends. The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office (SPO) recently launched the Korea Information System of Criminal Justice Services advancement project, which focuses on the addition of two-dimensional voice conversion barcodes in prosecution [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Blind, an anonymous community app for the workplace, recently succeeded in attracting a significant amount of funding. The private conversations of Korean office workers served as one of primary factors for the rapid growth of Blind, founded by a Korean entrepreneur Moon Sung-uk. TeamBlind Inc., the operator of the [...]
IKSAN, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Students at a special-education school for the blind received a special graduation gift this year. Located in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, Jeonbuk School for the Blind recently delivered “3D tactile albums” modeled after the faces of all seven graduates as graduation gifts. The album is the result of a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s first special-needs preschool for blind children opened its doors on September 1. It becomes the 30th special needs educational institution in the city and is the first of its kind to be established in the city since 2002. There are currently 26 children below the age of five [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) –Taekwang Group, Korea’s synthetic fiber manufacturer, said it will develop an audiobook application for visually impaired. The group’s info-techunit Tsis announced on July 27 that it has endorsed in initiating the “Audiobook Application Development Project” with the Korea Society for the Welfare of the Visually Handicapped. Upon completion of the project, [...]