Seongdong-gu Designates 6 Disability-Friendly Hair Salons

Seongdong-gu Designates and Operates Six ‘Disability-Friendly Hair Salons’ by Region to Welcome People with Disabilities

Lowering Barriers to Hair Salons by Creating Disability-Friendly Spaces with Entrance Ramps and Signage

Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jung Won-oh) has designated and is operating six disability-friendly hair salons to ensure that people with disabilities can use hair salons comfortably and safely.

For the general public, a hair salon is just a place visited once a month, but for people with disabilities, a single step at the salon, a chair, or unfamiliar gazes all become significant barriers.

Accordingly, Seongdong-gu has designated a total of six hair salons operating in different regions as disability-friendly hair salons to allow people with disabilities to visit comfortably.

Yoon Kyung-hee (55), a person with a physical disability living in Majang-dong, always goes to the hair salon with a caregiver. Although Yoon is active independently, the nearby hair salons have steps that are difficult to overcome alone. Unable to wash her hair while seated in a wheelchair, her caregiver must transfer her before she can wash her hair in the shampoo chair.

Seongdong-gu installed ramps to ensure that residents in wheelchairs can move without inconvenience and provided large hairdressing gowns that fully cover wheelchairs. Additionally, signs indicating that all people with disabilities are always welcome were posted to lower the psychological barriers for people with disabilities visiting the salons. The district plans to continue expanding disability-friendly hair and beauty salons in the future.

First Musai Hair Salon in Seongsu-dong (Director Shin Ji-yong), which has consistently volunteered by providing free hair services to people with disabilities, was also designated as a disability-friendly hair salon this time. Director Shin said, “When people with disabilities come for hair services, if there are other customers, they might feel uncomfortable with the gazes, so I have intentionally not accepted other customers at least once a month to provide hair service volunteering. I am glad that through this opportunity, people with disabilities can now visit anytime without difficulty.”

Jung Won-oh, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, said, “There are cases where people with disabilities do not receive consideration due to prejudice and lack of attention, even though they have the same everyday rights as everyone else. I would like to thank those who participated in the designation of disability-friendly hair salons, and we will continue to provide careful attention and consideration for the happy lives of people with disabilities.”

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