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Director or been a member of many associations and committees dedicated to improving welfare and promoting sports for disabled people, including being Director and later President of the Korea Employment Promotion Agency for the Disabled Person from 1991 to 1993. She also worked as a member of the Comprehensive Welfare Policy for the Disabled Person (Ministry of Health and Social Affair, Korea). Her work was recognized by
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which greatly impaired her right leg. Following rehabilitation and surgical treatments, she was able to stand by the age of seven however, she continued to have a limp. As a result, she faced some hardships in her education, including being rejected from admission into an elementary school at the age
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in 1974–75. However, severe pains in her right leg required her to return to Korea cutting short her time in New York. Upon her return she founded the
Jungnip Centre, the first social welfare centre in Korea to cater to disabled people (affected by polio). The centre provided training in skills and
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Dr. Whang has worked on sports for disabled people in numerous other ways: she was
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