SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Guide Dog School on Tuesday held a rehoming ceremony for eight guide dogs that were delivered to their visually-handicapped partners after completing training at a facility in Yongin, about 50 kilometers south of Seoul. They will begin a career in earnest as guide dogs after being delivered to [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A lawmaker with a visual disability stressed that every year, the last Wednesday of April is the International Guide Dog Day, calling for more efforts to raise social awareness and public interest in guide dogs. Rep. Kim Ye-ji of the People Power Party told MBC radio Thursday that there [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — As the world commemorates White Cane Safety Day on Monday, South Korean journalists conducted a study to see if visually impaired people could freely enter restaurants with guide dogs, only to find out that visually impaired people are still subject to discrimination. Yonhap News journalists visited major restaurants in [...]