Three Days to Hear
Quote of Helen Keller’s autobiography ‘Three days to see’,
- Sisa
Journal, 15/08/2012.
Summary
The
2012 film “Dogani” presented the issue of the human rights of the students of a
specialist school in the suburbs which taught children with hearing
disabilities. This movie showed how deaf people are mistreated in Korea. Deaf
people who are the center of this topic, however, could not even watch the
film, as it was screened without subtitles. Furthermore, the social welfare
allowance for deaf people is lower than for other disabled persons, largely
because a deaf person’s disabilities are not as overt.
This
article aimed at vocalising the people that are constantly neglected in
society, especially from the view of social safety nets and how the media
approaches the rights of disabled people.
Process
of Report
1.
Draft (May)
Original
Title was ‘I had a dream’ but changed to appeal emotionally
2.
Researching (May)
Survey
50 hearing disabled university students living in Seoul.
3.
Interview (May)
(Face
to face) Civil servant from social welfare center, three students from
statistical group
(E-mail)
Representative of deaf students’ union
-
Characteristically of their disabilities, it is not possible to have phone
interview
4.
Further Research (June)
Searching
related clauses, conditions, figures
-
Additional interview to central social welfare civil servant
5.
Writing (June)
Approximately
4 A4 pages
6.
Editing (June, July)
Choose
Head, subtitle. Edit draft article to clarify meaning. Add graphics related to
topics
Role/Responsibilities
This
work was co-written with my friend who also has disabilities in hearing and
seeing. Because of his disabilities, I held responsibility for writing and
research. I developed both quantitative/qualitative questionnaires, took
photographs, formatted graphs, and wrote up the project. My friend gave advice
from his perspective as a disabled person in Korea while I did in-depth
research on that topic after, such as problems in transportation (Deaf people in Korea rarely use bus due to a lack of signage, and can only use buses with announcements.)
Result
of Report
This
article was being done as part of our course work ‘News Writing’, and I got the
advert of contest. To inform this existing flaw in society, we decided to
submit it in to competition. To make reportage strong in a crowded field, I
found stories on ‘humanities’ added more stories which able to sympathize.
Differentiation
strategy I used was ‘humanity’; put more space on stories of disabled students
who want to live as ordinary students instead of government’s policies and
figures of budgets.