SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Seok-yeol and first lady Kim Keon-hee on Saturday adopted one more guide dog that recently retired from the Samsung Guide Dog School in Yongin, south of Seoul. The retired guide dog, named Saeromi, is a female labrador retriever born in Dec. 2013. She served as a guide [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Mart, the hypermarket chain operated by South Korean retail giant Lotte, is under fire after one of its stores denied entry of a guide dog undergoing training. An Instagram post on Nov. 29 documented an incident in which a Lotte Mart employee prevented a guide dog and its [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly reached an internal decision Monday to allow the guide dog of a newly elected lawmaker with a visual disability to enter the main chamber, parliamentary officials said. Kim Ye-ji of the minor opposition Future Korea Party won a proportional representation seat in last week’s parliamentary elections. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance is being a good corporate citizen by donating seeing eye dogs to the visually impaired. On December 23, it offered five guide dogs following the donation of six dogs last June. The company opened a guide dog school in 1993 and has offered a total [...]