SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — For persons with hearing disabilities, the contactless culture brought about by the pandemic has been another obstacle to overcome. While social discretion and interest toward people who are hearing impaired have increased, leading to the introduction of lip-view masks and interpretation services for sign language, the obstacles they face [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean logistics giant CJ Logistics Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will launch a new service that will offer jobs to the hearing-impaired. As part of its creating shared value (CSV) initiative, the company plans to launch the ‘Blue Parcel Delivery Service,’ in which a hearing-impaired will deliver [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Energy Co., one of the leading oil refiners in South Korea, plans to expand support for Goyohan Mobility, a program designed to create jobs for hearing-impaired people. The company announced on Thursday that it will bear a certain portion of the fuel costs incurred when taxis participating in [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it updated its services for hearing-impaired taxi drivers with new safety technology. The telecom operator partnered with local social venture Coactus Ltd. in 2018 to launch a taxi-hailing app for hearing-impaired drivers. SK Telecom said Coactus will directly employ the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp., the South Korean unit of French automaker Renault S.A., said Tuesday its liquefied petroleum gas-powered QM6 SUV will be used for the platform established to offer car-sharing services by hiring hearing-impaired drivers. Goyohan (meaning “silent” in Korean) Mobility, established by a local startup Coactus Ltd., [...]
DAEJEON, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on Wednesday that it had developed a sign language video to share COVID-19 prevention guidelines with hearing-impaired people. In this video developed jointly with a sign language solution developer EQ4All, an avatar uses sign language to introduce the social distancing [...]
DAEJEON, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A local social enterprise is gaining attention after making and distributing specially designed protective masks for teachers at schools for hearing-impaired students, to ensure their right to education amid the coronavirus outbreak. Persons with hearing disabilities have to look at the mouth to clearly understand what the other person [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — While the hearing-impaired use hand gestures as their main means of communication, or communicate in sign language, recent research found that specialized sign language education is not being conducted properly. In a survey of 320 hearing-impaired people, conducted by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, a majority of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) announced on Wednesday that it is discrimination to refuse to rent a car to a hearing-impaired individual, and recommended that car rental companies establish measures to prevent a recurrence of this type of situation. Furthermore, it advised the Ministry of Land, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group’s ‘Silent Taxi’ project has been successfully completed, and will allow hearing-impaired individuals to drive safely by providing sound information with visual and sensory cues. The so-called ‘Silent Taxi’ was introduced on January 7, and is based on Audio-Tactile Conversion (ACT) technology. The ‘Silent Taxi’ features sensory [...]