SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite passing disability discrimination laws 40 years ago, critics say South Korea needs to do more to ensure the right of disabled people to travel. A number of human rights activists gathered in Seoul today to discuss the rights of disabled people at a forum organized by the National Human [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — After inspecting 27,012 entities in the private sector last year, the Ministry of Employment and Labor revealed the average employment rate (compared to number of full-time workers) for individuals with disabilities was 2.61 percent, and that this figure declined among employers with larger workforces. While employers with 100 to [...]
DAEJEON, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Patent applications for high-tech smart gloves are on the rise. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office, the number of smart glove patent applications quadrupled over the past five years (2012 to 2016) to an average of 17.8 per year from what was 4.6 patents between 2007 and 2011. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Three new government initiatives will make use of the latest smart devices to help improve the lives of elderly farmers and the disabled. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion, in partnership with the local governments of Andong, Jeonju, [...]
CHUNCHEON, South Korea, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics donated five laundry trucks on Monday to five cities and counties in Gangwon Province. The donation was a part of Samsung’s charity ventures to provide laundry services for the elderly and the disabled whose physical displacements are limited. Each truck is equipped with four washing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of researchers from Korea is participating in the 2016 Cybathlon along with 42-year-old Kim Byung-ok, who’ll be featured as the Korean Iron Man. Cybathlon is an international competition for disabled athletes with bionic assistive technology, and will be held for the first time this year in October [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s disabled veterans’ association said Friday they will visit Ethiopia next week to meet soldiers who fought in the Korean War (1950-53). “Starting this year, we are planning to visit the countries that sent their soldiers to the Korean conflict one by one to meet the veterans who [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled revealed Tuesday the development of a Braille information instrument called ‘Neo Braille’. The new Braille information instrument is a portable data communications device that comes with a Braille keyboard, Braille display, and a speaker, designed to help the visually impaired to write [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Inc. said on November 14 that it would open to public its lab for web accessibility within the company’s headquarters building. Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. The lab consists of four different spaces: for those visually [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Community Rehabilitation Center announced that it will hold a training session for ‘Water Dance,’ a type of underwater exercise for the first time in Korea at the center. The center, established in 1997, is Korea’s first specialized institution for underwater rehabilitation and offers various services and programs for [...]