Wanju-gun Achieves Top Rate in Proper Installation of Facilities for the Disabled

Jeonbuk Center for Technology Support for the Convenience of the Disabled Announces, Appropriate Installation Rate at 61.9%, Ranking 2nd in Jeonbuk

[Wanju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kim Han-ho] The appropriate installation rate of convenience facilities for the disabled in Wanju-gun was found to be at a high level in Jeonbuk.

According to Wanju-gun on the 1st, the Jeonbuk Disabled Convenience Promotion Technology Support Center conducted an on-site survey for six months from April to September targeting 326 locations including city and county offices, community centers, welfare centers, museums, and libraries within the province. As a result, Wanju-gun recorded an appropriate installation rate of 61.9%.

Only two places exceeded a 60% appropriate installation rate: Wanju-gun and Jinan-gun (62.1%), while eight places were in the 50% range and four places in the 40% range.

Compared to the overall appropriate installation rate of Jeonbuk (52.5%), Wanju-gun’s rate was 9.4 percentage points higher.

Wanju-gun’s inappropriate installation rate was also only 20.5%, the lowest among the 14 cities and counties.

This survey, conducted based on the legal installation standards under the Act on the Promotion of Convenience for the Disabled, investigated overall aspects from auxiliary facilities such as access routes to main entrances, disabled-only parking spaces, and elimination of height differences at main entrances, to internal facilities including entrances, corridors, stairs, elevators, and hygiene facilities such as toilets, urinals, and washbasins.

In particular, five types of facilities were evaluated, including tactile blocks, guidance facilities, alarms and evacuation equipment, as well as other facilities such as reception desks. The structure and materials of convenience facilities required for each target facility were also investigated.

Despite Wanju-gun having the largest number of survey targets among the eight counties with 24 locations, it recorded one of the highest appropriate installation rates. This is analyzed to be due to its practical disability support policies such as prohibition of discrimination against the disabled and protection of human rights.

Wanju-gun has set “providing social security opportunities for self-realization” as the basic direction of welfare for the disabled, and has been implementing integrated disability welfare policies including elimination of discrimination and prejudice against the disabled, establishment of institutional measures, vocational rehabilitation, job creation, healing, and care, which have drawn high responses.

Wanju=Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kim Han-ho stonepeak@asiae.co.kr

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