Disability rights activists to resume protests in Seoul this week

The group Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination will stage activities downtown on Wednesdays and Thursdays during morning rush hour.

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Activists from the disability rights group Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination stage a protest at a subway station in Gwangju on May 16.

A disability rights activist group said Tuesday it will resume its subway protests in Seoul this week, following a six-month hiatus.

Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) said in a press release that the protests will take place during morning rush hour inside Seoul City Hall Station, starting Thursday.

SADD urged Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon to reinstate 400 workers who had been hired under the city government's rights-centered public jobs program but have since been laid off. The program was launched in 2020 to provide employment for the severely disabled, but it was abolished in 2024.

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Separately, the group will stage another protest by boarding buses every Wednesday at 8 a.m. in Seoul's central Jongno District, starting this week.


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