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Law in Global
IsPublic
Transport
Reallyfor
Everyone?
ByYangYu-min
StaffReporterofSocialSection
“G
uarantee the right of mobility for the disabled!” On a cold windy day, the disabled in wheelchairs are holding
pickets and marching forward in a line to conduct a protest on the subway during rush hour. They are calling for
improvementsintherightofmobilityforthedisabled.
AccordingtotheMinistryofLand,InfrastructureandTransport(MOLIT)andtheKoreaTransportationSafetyAuthority,there
are15.4millionmobilitydisadvantagedpersons,*includingthedisabled,asoftheendof2020,whichis29.7percentofthetotal
SouthKoreanpopulation.Thismeansthreeoutof10peoplearemobilitydisadvantagedpersons.However,Korea’stransportation
infrastructureforthemisnotwellestablished.InDecember2004,the“ActonPromotionofTheTransportationConvenienceof
MobilityDisadvantagedPersons”wasenactedsothattheycouldmovesafelyandconveniently.However,morethantenyearslater,
current public transportation is still far away for the disabled. For this reason, the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination
(SADD), a civic group that protects the human rights of the disabled, started a demonstration calling for the guarantee of the
right to move freely from Dec. 3, 2021. On the occasion of the Day of the Disabled on April 20, The Argus intends to examine
the current status of the right of mobility in Korea and the Act on Promotion of The Transportation Convenience of Mobility
DisadvantagedPersons.
*Mobility disadvantaged persons: Persons who feel inconvenient in mobility in their daily lives, such as persons with disabilities, the aged, pregnant women, persons
accompaniedbyinfants,andchildren.
Low Floor Bus: This is a bus with a low floor and a ramp installed at the entrance
Government
instead of stairs so that mobility disadvantaged persons can climb safely and
conveniently without the help of others. Due to these characteristics, low floor buses
Metropolitan
cannot be operated in alleys with steep slopes and narrow roads, as there is a
possibilitythatthedevicesunderthebusmaybescratchedandruptured.
ⓒSeoul
▶Lowfloorbusesareintroducedtorealizebarrier-free.
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www.theargus.org
IsPublic
Transport
Reallyfor
Everyone?
ByYangYu-min
StaffReporterofSocialSection
“G
uarantee the right of mobility for the disabled!” On a cold windy day, the disabled in wheelchairs are holding
pickets and marching forward in a line to conduct a protest on the subway during rush hour. They are calling for
improvementsintherightofmobilityforthedisabled.
AccordingtotheMinistryofLand,InfrastructureandTransport(MOLIT)andtheKoreaTransportationSafetyAuthority,there
are15.4millionmobilitydisadvantagedpersons,*includingthedisabled,asoftheendof2020,whichis29.7percentofthetotal
SouthKoreanpopulation.Thismeansthreeoutof10peoplearemobilitydisadvantagedpersons.However,Korea’stransportation
infrastructureforthemisnotwellestablished.InDecember2004,the“ActonPromotionofTheTransportationConvenienceof
MobilityDisadvantagedPersons”wasenactedsothattheycouldmovesafelyandconveniently.However,morethantenyearslater,
current public transportation is still far away for the disabled. For this reason, the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination
(SADD), a civic group that protects the human rights of the disabled, started a demonstration calling for the guarantee of the
right to move freely from Dec. 3, 2021. On the occasion of the Day of the Disabled on April 20, The Argus intends to examine
the current status of the right of mobility in Korea and the Act on Promotion of The Transportation Convenience of Mobility
DisadvantagedPersons.
*Mobility disadvantaged persons: Persons who feel inconvenient in mobility in their daily lives, such as persons with disabilities, the aged, pregnant women, persons
accompaniedbyinfants,andchildren.
Low Floor Bus: This is a bus with a low floor and a ramp installed at the entrance
Government
instead of stairs so that mobility disadvantaged persons can climb safely and
conveniently without the help of others. Due to these characteristics, low floor buses
Metropolitan
cannot be operated in alleys with steep slopes and narrow roads, as there is a
possibilitythatthedevicesunderthebusmaybescratchedandruptured.
ⓒSeoul
▶Lowfloorbusesareintroducedtorealizebarrier-free.
30
www.theargus.org
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