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Funding and governance of library and information services for visually impaired people: international case studies

Part2:Country studies

South Korea

Definitions and their effects

The definition in current use does not specifically define visual impairment, but defines blindness as an aspect of visual impairment: “people with visual impairment including the blind.”

The definition is thought to be inclusive enough.

The definition of “print impairment” used by the Korean Library for the Blind covers “older people, people with dyslexia, learning disabled people, physically handicapped people who do not have both hands and people with paralysis, etc.”