Visually-impaired masseurs' monopoly
Sunday 23 November 2008
In South Korea, a 1912 law dictates that to work as a massage therapist you must be visually impaired. FRANCE 24 met one of the Korean illegal workers who is currently on trial for violation of the medical law.
Sunday 23 November 2008
By Nathalie TOURRET (text) / Nathalie TOURRET (video)Hyun-suk is an illegal masseuse in South Korea. She will never get an official license because a 1912 law states that to work as a massage therapist you must be visually-impaired. Hyun-suk is fully sighted. So, instead of a license, she only has a certificate from an Institute where she studied for six months. She can be fined or jailed for working as a masseuse and is currently on trial for violation of the medical law.
Hyun-suk was hoping for a change. But the Korean Constitutional Court has just ruled that blind people can keep their exclusive right to the vocation for another hundred years. Hyun-suk, and her husband who owns the massage parlour, are furious because, they say, they have paying fines and taxes and the government still treats them like "criminals".
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THE RIGHTS OF DISABLE PEOPLE
By A YANKEE - USA FLORIDA
Dec 28, 2008
Korean Blind People are rights to protect their rights, at less one kind of job secured for then. In USA many Law, to protect desable people, but those law are unoperative, private interprice has the right to avoid contrate them, as result no rights to disable in usa. All is bla, bla.