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corona quarantine rules may seem uncomfortable to some, but for the disabled, it feels like a huge barrier standing in the way of everyday life.



Reporter Chan-geun Park met with people with disabilities whose lives are more difficult than before today (12th), in order to look at the inequality in our society that is getting worse due to the corona virus.



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Choi Won-ji, 51, who has been blind since birth, has become virtually impossible to go out alone after Corona.



[Wonji Choi/Blind person: Are you locked? are you locked up? Isn't this the community center building? Is the community center building correct? Strange?] Because



most of the buildings are locked except for one or two entrances for quarantine reasons.



Even if you barely find the entrance, it is virtually impossible to find a machine to take your body temperature, enter a QR code, or write an entry list by yourself.



[Wonji Choi/Blind person: Where are you doing it? (Wait a minute.) I'd like to ask you for this. (Follow me.) Yes, just do it. (Should I do it?)] In the



elevator, an antibacterial film to prevent the spread of corona covers the braille, so even if you fumble your hand, you can't tell what floor you are pressing.



[Wonji Choi/Blind person: It is impossible to find the first floor by touching it.] It



is difficult to reserve vaccines and obtain quarantine information, but above all, there are many cases where it becomes difficult to make a living.



The number of regular customers has also decreased due to the fact that the massage place is a narrow and closed space.



[Wonji Choi/Blind person: In my case, (sales were only about 20% of the previous year), I was considering closing the business at the end of last year.]



Another hardship arose for the hearing impaired.



In order to understand the other person's speech, it is essential to read the shape of the mouth and facial expressions, since these cannot be seen when wearing a mask.



[Jin-yong Cho/Hearing-impaired (sign language interpreter: Hee-ja Jeong): Because I am wearing a mask with non-disabled people in the company, I have some difficulties with communication… .] The



problem is that for the disabled, the difficulties caused by the Corona virus can go beyond everyday inconveniences and lead to income disparities.



This is because work has become more difficult, and in many cases the work itself has been reduced altogether.



Statistically, yes.



Looking at the share of the economically active population and employment rate as well as the wage trend of workers last year, it can be seen that the economic difficulties of the disabled were greater.



Corona was more severe for the disabled.



[Professor Kim Beom-joong / Department of Social Welfare, Chung-Ang University: Isn't it a very vulnerable group to infectious diseases? So, the government's subsidized policy to keep them alive by giving them vouchers (very necessary)]



It is time to come up with quick countermeasures so that the difficulties of the disabled, who are suffering more from the corona virus, do not get bigger.



(Video coverage: Cho Chun-dong, Kim Tae-hoon, Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Jeong Young-sam, Writer: Lee Soo-bin, Kim Yu-mi, VJ: Jeong Young-sam, CG: Hong Seong-yong, Choi Jae-young, Sung Jae-eun, Jeong Si-won, Ahn Ji-hyun)