Kang Bujin, Park Dujong, and Others Awarded for Contributions to Korean Braille Development

"Building Korean-Braille Parallel Corpus Starting Next Year"

Gang Bu-jin, manager of the Busan Braille Library, and others will receive the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Commendation for their contributions to the development of Braille. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the National Institute of the Korean Language, the National Library for the Disabled, the Korea Blind Union, and the Korea Braille Library Association will hold a ceremony on the 4th at the Irum Center in Yeouido, Seoul, to commemorate "Hangeul Braille Day." This event honors Mr. Park Du-seong Songam, who officially announced the current 6-dot Hangeul Braille system on November 4, 1926. On stage, Manager Gang Bu-jin, Deputy Park Du-jong of the Seoul Welfare Center for the Visually Impaired, and Officer Park Hye-sook of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's National Geographic Information Institute will receive the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Commendation. Minister Park Yang-woo of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced, "Starting next year, as part of the Korean New Deal project, we will build a Korean-Braille parallel corpus (big data)." He added, "Using this data, visually impaired people will be able to use Braille conveniently on digital devices without falling behind in information in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution."

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