David Bar-Tzur
Flag: World flag database.
Map: Maps.com - "search" for country, then "Digital Map Graphics").
For a quick, interesting resource for facts about this and other countries,
try Mystic Planet - The New Age directory of Planet Earth.
Note: A flag next to a link shows what language the website is in. If it is followed by this icon: (
), it is a video in that spoken language. If it is followed by this icon: 
, it is in the sign language of that country. If a globe is followed by this hands icon, there is an animated text in International Gesture.
http://board.cein.or.kr/board/mboard.cgi?cmd=list&path=cein_or_kr12&db=suhwoa.song.
Major demonstration of the Deaf on Day of Deaf. On the June 3rd, Day of Deaf, The Korean Association of Deaf hosted the Rally on the opposite side of the National Assembly building in Yeouido, Seoul, and around 1,500 deaf belonging to the Korean Association of Deaf came from all over the country to participate in the rally and ask for the Guarantee of their human rights.
Post-secondary education for deaf students in Korea.
The Seon-hee Seoul Nat'l School for the Deaf Alumni Association.
Visiting Researcher/Scholar - Dr. Sung-Kyu Choi.
동창회소개 | 커뮤니티 | 이야기 | 뉴스 | 행사일정 | 게시판 | 쪽지 | 로그아웃 |
IMDb.
Boksuneun naui geot (2002). This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Manjong (1970). The son of a mute couple succeeds in getting a good job, but is dismayed when he learns that he may have gotten the job, not based on his business skill, but on his ability to speak sign language. This rumor comes about because the boss has a deaf daughter whom he wants to marry off as soon as possible.
Sad Movie (2005). When Lee Jin-woo rescued Su-eun from a fire they both defied the odds in surviving. Su-eun works as a "character" in an amusement park. Her face was scared in the fire, and in addition she is a deaf mute. Feeling free to be more forward when in costume behind a large "Raggedy-Ann" head, she approaches a handsome artist who frequents the park to paint. He starts to come infatuated with her, despite never having seen her face or heard her voice. Separation looms as a possible outcome for all of [the] inter-twined souls who live and love in Seoul, Korea.
Yukdagoldaenyeo (2006). Directed by Ae-rim Lee.
www.disabilityfilms.co.uk. Adada. Film (1989) South Korea, 120 min, Drama. Set in 1920s Korea. Adada is a deaf young woman who enters into an arranged marriage with what appears to be a pleasant, young man. However some years later her husband becomes involved with drink and prostitutes and abruptly leaves her. He makes his fortune, marries again, returns and boots her out of the house. Poor Adada does find love with a poor man from her village but he too goes off the tracks when he becomes obsessed with making money.
DeafTODAY.
(2005, January 26). German nun endured N. Korea camps, taught deaf-mutes.One of the last two German nuns who endured years in communist North Korean camps was buried on Wednesday after a service attended by deaf-mute people she helped during more than six decades on the peninsula.
(2004, May 17). Korean's calling is to the deaf. Though Min Seo Park has been deaf since he was a toddler, no one in his native South Korea recognized the disability until he was a teenager. Park suffered for years in school, unable to read, write or communicate.
(2004, February 8). DODDS now offering classes in sign language. While it takes years to master, Seoul American High School students have started learning ASL during an elective period, the first offered at the school, blessed by principal Keith Henson.
(2003, June 11). Manoa school first to offer sign language credit. Samantha Kuwata, 15, admits that she first enrolled in American Sign Language because she thought it had to be easier than learning Japanese. Two years later, Kuwata isn't so sure. But she's proud that she is among the first hearing students in the state — all attending Saint Francis School in Manoa — to learn American Sign Language.
Seoul Association of the Deaf.
Seoul Catholic Association for the Deaf.
Deaf Today. (2003, February 7). Handicapped to Teach Sculpture. Thirty-year-old Shin Il-su has been appointed as an instructor at the University of Seoul to teach environmental sculpture in the coming spring semester. With congenital hearing and speech impairments, Shin chose art as his profession from the fifth grade after reading about master painter Kim.
Korean Sign Language TV.,
Deaf Today. (2003, February 2). A firm hold. Blind and nearly deaf, Loyola High's Nikos Daley has been able to grasp a little glory and much satisfaction as a junior varsity wrestler.
Institute of Korean Sign Language.
-->International bibliography of sign language. --> Click on "K", then on "Korean Sign Language".
Hong, S-E. Empirical survey of animal classifiers.
Kang-Suk Byun - Research Assistant.
Korean Sign Language: A language of Korea.
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Bar-Tzur, D. Indigenous signs for cities: South Korea.
SignPuddle. Dictionary Korea.
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Choi, J. Automatic translation of Korean into Korean Sign Language with combinatory categorial grammar. In this work, we propose to use combinatory categorial grammar to analyze expressions in natural language such as Korean and examine the issues and elements that are relevant in the process of translating Korean into Korean sign language, showing how to utilize the idiosyncratic linguistic devices of Korean sign language for more natural expressions of Korean sign language with an implemented system
Hong, M-H, Choi, C-S; Kim, C-S; Jeon, J-H. Synthesis of image sequences for Korean sign language using 3D shape model.
Human-friendly Welfare Robot System Engineering.
Kim, J-B, Park K-H, Bang, W-C. & Bien, Z. Z. (2002). Continuous Korean Sign Language recognition - Using gesture segmentation.
Seok, H. K. & Su, H. P. Toward Korean Text-to-Sign Language Translation System(TeST).
Yoon, Y-H. & Jo, K-H. Hands shape recognition using moment invariant for the Korean sign language recognition.
Good Methodist Church - Deaf Ministry.
Seoul Catholic Association for the Deaf.
Signs of Deaf awareness.The Rev. Peggy Johnson/Christ United Methodist Church of the Deaf: "The language issues were many. But so was the blessing, once we all got together to see it." People from over a dozen countries gathered in Baltimore, for the first-ever United Methodist Global Conference of the Deaf. It was an opportunity to celebrate the challenges of serving this community.
