Our
group intend to study disabled students of Korea, especially 'Disabled
students of SNU'.
We
selected this subculture because of the following reasons:
1. Availability
for speaking English
2.
Physical adjacency
3. Established
connection with our group
Through
research and discussion, we identified the most common stereotypes about
disabled students is ‘extremeness’. Most people bring one of two images
in their mind when they are asked to think about disabled person. They either
think of ‘Redemption scenario’ which is related with dramatically overcoming their
disability, or ‘Despair scenario’ which is about submitting to their
disability.
So
we have set our goal to study about the ‘real disabled people’ living around us. Since we have connection with student club ‘Turntoable(student
community whose objective is to provide environment that disabled students can
study without inconvenience)’ we would be able to contact with disabled SNU
students and SNU students who help disabled students.
Interview
schedules would be set during early October and we intend to conduct our
interviews inside SNU campus.
And
these are the researches we have done about how disabled people are living in
Korea.
Recommend
to watch this video from 29:50
This
interview footage introduces Professor Kim Jong-Bae, at Department of
Occupational Therapy, Yonsei University. At age of 24, he injured his neck
and since then, he could not move his body below waist. However, he did not
fell in despair and started to develop assistive devices for disabled people
like him. This video is about his struggle for helping other disabled
people.
Two
families with disabilities, two very different stories
“Glittering
Hands,” is an autobiographical documentary that a daughter narrates the real story
about her parents with hearing impairments. This documentary depicts the lives of disabled people as peaceful and harmonious. Yet, “Thank You, Daddy”, a French film about a
father and his disabled son,emphasize the difficulties that disabled person and his family go though.
Im
rising as star in wheelchair tennis
Im
Ho-won, 17, is a Korean wheelchair tennis player, and was recently ranked in world No.
35. Despite his physical challenge, people give him a chance to
play tennis by giving him a tennis racket,a ball and scholarship with no
hesitance. He is now a rising star in tennis worldwide, and he will participate in the
Rio Paralympics next year.
This autobiographical article is about a Korean student who has a cerebral palsy. He says that he is fed up with people's perspective that either praises him for his spirit or pities him for his disability. He always wants to be independent and consider that the
Korean government should give disabled people more chances to get a job instead of just providing them financial support.
This article was written by Lenore Dillon, a Visionaware peer advisor. She has come to South Korea to
teach the students with disabilities in Korea Nazarene University. She tells story about solving wheelchair parking
problems at campus, since her husband is on wheelchair.
