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2024[Disability] JUNG Sungju Discussion Paper

3 Oct 2024
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How do people with physical disabilities in South Korea compare to those in Europe?


JUNG Sungju [Director, Gwangju Nanum Center for Independent Living of Persons with Disabilities]


From August 17 to August 31, 2024, I visited three European countries: Norway, Germany, and France. I traveled there as a member of the Paris Paralympic Special Envoy of the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination. First of all, I was happy to go to Europe, but it was very difficult to travel from Gwangju to Incheon using a wheelchair. (I usually use crutches, but I use a wheelchair when I go abroad.)

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In order to live and enjoy the civil rights of people with disabilities in a living space called a city, a civic space, and to move and access somewhere, it is important to create a physical environment, but it is also very important to change the perception of fellow citizens who live together, and this should be the basis.


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