▲ Members of the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) hold a "Riding the Subway on My Way to Work" protest at Seoul Station on the 18th.
Subway trains temporarily passed through Seoul Station without stopping this morning (August 18), the first workday following the Liberation Day holiday, as the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) staged a subway-boarding protest.
Some SADD activists and Seoul Metro officials clashed as the activists attempted to board the trains.
Due to SADD's boarding protest on the platform at Seoul Station today, inbound and outbound trains on Line 4 and southbound trains on Line 1 bypassed the station without stopping for over an hour, from 8:49 a.m. to 10:12 a.m.
As outbound trains on Line 4 bypassed the station first, activists attempted to board trains in the opposite direction, leading to physical confrontations with Seoul Metro officials.
Seoul Metro officials blocked them from boarding, and the activists ultimately failed to get on the trains.
SADD announced that it will hold daily morning subway campaigns starting today, demanding that the Ministry of Economy and Finance reflect disability rights budgets.
They have also set up a tent protest camp in front of the Korea Fiscal Information Service in Jung-gu, urging the guarantee of budgets for disabled people's right to mobility and rights protection.
In addition, starting today, they will gather every morning in front of the Korea Fiscal Information Service and march toward the private residence of Minister of Health and Welfare Cho Kyoo-hong to carry out "poche-toji."
Poche-toji replaces the first character of the traditional Buddhist full-body prostration "oche-toji" (五體投地) with the character meaning "to crawl" (匍) to express the desperate appeals of severely disabled individuals.
(Photo: Yonhap News)
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