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About the Disabled

Disabled people are those who considerably suffer in daily life due to physical and mental disabilities, such as physical organ disorders, retarded mental development, or mental disease.

• Disability types were expanded to 10 from 5 in 2000, and to 15 from 10 in 2003.
• Registered disability types were expanded from the initial 5 (retardation, vision, hearing, language, and intellectual) in 1988, by 5 types (encephalopathy, autism, mental, kidney, and heart) in 2000, and by 5 types (respiratory organ, liver, face, intestinal fistula/urinary fistula, and epilepsy) in 2003; thus bringing the total to 15 types, 90% of which are due to acquired causes (diseases, traffic accidents, etc.).

Issuance of registration certificates

Registered disabled people can have a disabled person registration certificate or a disabled person welfare card issued (“disabled person registration certificate, etc.”). A disabled person registration card has no credit card or debit card functions, unlike a disabled person welfare card.

Welfare Policy for the Disabled

Hope Number for Disabled

• 10,000,000(KRW): Expanding the support fund for settlement after leaving the facilities
• 132,000(People): Expanding the number of beneficiaries among seriously disabled people
• 7,500(Job): Creating jobs in conjunction with private sectors
• 3,113(Bus): Expanding the number of low-bed buses for the better protection of disabled people
• 732(Facility): Expanding the number of weekly or short-term protection facilities, experience homes, and rental houses, among other community-specific residential facilities
• 120(People): Fostering sign language interpreters majoring in medicine and law
• 90(%): Percentage of installing convenience facilities for disabled people
• 18(Age): Bolstering the screening of disabled children 18 years old or younger for admission to residential facilities (providing rehabilitation services within communities)
• 5(People): Gradually reducing the number of people residing per room in residential facilities (reducing the number of persons per room from 18 to 5)
• 4(Point): Adding advantageous bid scores to private companies that have employed disabled people
• 1(Count): Enforce the one-strike-out system of disapproving facilities committing even one-time human rights violation against disabled people.