Non-Political Party’Disabled Disabled Party’
11 candidates including Mr. Han
Commitment to support cultural arts and access to the disabled
“We will reflect on our voices and politics”
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‘Stand-up comedian’ Ki-myeong Han is interviewing for a run at the headquarters in Gongdeok-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 2nd. Senior reporter Kim Bong-gyu [email protected]
“I think politics for the disabled should be done by the disabled. Wouldn’t there be a lot more politicians with disabilities than now so that our voices would be reflected in politics?” Ki-myeong Han, 27, who met at the Hankyoreh Shinmunsa in Mapo-gu, Seoul on the 2nd, said, encouraging the politics of people with disabilities because of her election as a candidate for the Mayor of Seoul. He is accompanied by the name tag’Korea’s first disabled stand-up comedian’. A new name tag’politician’ has been added. The Post-Institutional Disability Party is not a formal party, but a’fake party’ that will disappear when the official election campaign for by-election in April begins. Organizations with disabilities have been making campaigns since the 13th of last month to inform and demand implementation of the policy agenda for the disabled during this by-election. 11 candidates, including Han, Jin-seok Kim (department facility), Kyung-jin Chu (labor rights), and Young-eun Choi (Dong-kwon Lee), were’running’. Each of them shared their own pain and frustration that they experienced in a’non-disabled-centered society’ and refined them as a pledge. As a comedian, he was in charge of the arts and culture. It has made a pledge to guarantee the disabled’s access to cultural and artistic activities and increase support for artists with disabilities. “I was very sorry to invite someone in a wheelchair to a concert hall where I did a stand-up comedy. There was no elevator, the stairs were high, and I couldn’t even enter the concert hall without someone’s help. Many people say that the museum doesn’t have a braille sign or sign language interpreter, so they just went back without seeing the exhibit. I want to make Seoul a’barrier-free city’ where people with disabilities can enjoy culture and art.” He also emphasized that the vulnerability of the disabled policy and system was revealed intact by the Corona 19 outbreak, and appealed, “Please accept the pledges of 11 people and promote them.” “More people with disabilities are dying because of the corona. Some people who need help from an activity supporter for basic activities such as meals may not be able to receive support, and there is a high risk of infection if they are collectively housed in facilities for the disabled, such as in the case of Shin-Awon (76 corona19 confirmed cases). When he was seven, he got off a Taekwondo academy car and got into a car accident and spent six months in a vegetable state. Since then, he has a brain lesion disorder, a physical disorder, and a disorder in one eye. After he regained consciousness, the first program he saw was of KBS. “The gag program was so fun that I had a dream of becoming a comedian and presenting laughter and emotion to people. But I thought,’Can I pass the audition for a broadcasting station with a disability?’, and I started looking for a stage where I could stand.” He started playing at the disabled theater company in 2016, and started stand-up comedy in 2018. He chose a stand-up comedy because he wanted to throw something to think about by sublimating his experience surrounding disability with laughter. “My comedy is on the subway,’I wish people with disabilities. When I hear the words,’If you’re so envious, you’ll be handicapped’ when you hear the saying,’There’s no money, no taxes, and the subway is free.’ It’s not like a non-disabled person who doesn’t know the disability causes laughter in a way that dismisses it.” Although comedy and politics seem distant, the goal he wants to achieve as a comedian and as a candidate for the mayor of Seoul is the same. It is a world where people naturally accept disabilities without discrimination and prejudice to the extent that their comedy materials are exhausted and the disabled party is not necessary. “I do comedy and politics to reduce discrimination against people with disabilities.” By Kim Yoon-joo, staff reporter [email protected]