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SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Many South Koreans with disabilities are refraining from exercising outdoor regardless of the dwindling impacts of the pandemic, a survey confirmed Monday.
The Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism carried out a survey of 10,000 registered disabled individuals within the nation between the ages of 10 and 69, which confirmed that solely 26.6 % of them exercised outdoor greater than twice every week, up by 6.4 proportion factors from final 12 months’s survey.
The remaining three-fourths of the disabled inhabitants, nonetheless, nonetheless face difficulties exercising outdoor.
Among the many respondents, 45.7 % exercised at “close by mountain trails or parks.” Solely 16.7 % used train amenities.
As for the the reason why many disabled individuals failed to make use of train amenities, 28.6 % mentioned they’d difficulties exercising alone, whereas 14.2 % mentioned they didn’t have sufficient time and 12.9 % mentioned train amenities have been too distant from the place they dwell.
At 33.6 %, a good portion of the respondents referred to as on the necessity for monetary subsidies when going outdoor for train, adopted by demand for train applications devoted to disabled individuals (17.2 %), help amenities for disabled individuals at train amenities (15.2 %) and train tools for the disabled (14.4 %).
Lina Jang ([email protected])
