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Disability Advocacy Group Resumes Rush-hour Subway Protest, Causing 1-hr Train Delays

Disability Advocacy Group Resumes Rush-hour Subway Protest, Causing 1-hr Train Delays

SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A disability advocacy group resumed its rush-hour subway protest campaign Monday calling for a state budget for enhancing disability rights, leaving early morning trains on Subway Line 5 delayed by nearly an hour. Demanding a budget for disability rights, including the right to free movement, dozens of wheelchair-bound activists [...]

Disability Rights Group’s Five-Year Protest at Gwanghwamun Square Comes to an End

Disability Rights Group’s Five-Year Protest at Gwanghwamun Square Comes to an End

SUWON, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean disability rights group has ended its five-year long protest at Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul after the health and welfare minister met with the protesters and finally agreed to make it easier for the disabled to claim benefits despite the income of their legal provider. A group [...]