From the Korea Times 26-27 August, p.3
"Masseur Jobs to be Exclusive for Blind"
Lawmakers are discussing a new law to allow only the visually impaired to work as masseurs, despite the Constitutional Court's ruling in May that denied the constitutionality of such exclusive rights.
The National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee yesterday issued a bill revision alllowing only visually impaired people to be masseurs or masseuses.
According to the revised bill, visually challenged people who have finished massage courses at schools equivalent to high school or have graduated from middle and have taken more than two years traiining in massage at government authorised institutions, are qualified to be masseurs.
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I find this to be a rather bizarre piece of legislation. I can only imagine that the intent of the legislation is to stop prostitutes offering their services as masseurs but it seems unfair that sighted people, who may have graduated from massage college and worked as a masseur for years, may be banned from their livelihood.
Z
"Masseur Jobs to be Exclusive for Blind"
Lawmakers are discussing a new law to allow only the visually impaired to work as masseurs, despite the Constitutional Court's ruling in May that denied the constitutionality of such exclusive rights.
The National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee yesterday issued a bill revision alllowing only visually impaired people to be masseurs or masseuses.
According to the revised bill, visually challenged people who have finished massage courses at schools equivalent to high school or have graduated from middle and have taken more than two years traiining in massage at government authorised institutions, are qualified to be masseurs.
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I find this to be a rather bizarre piece of legislation. I can only imagine that the intent of the legislation is to stop prostitutes offering their services as masseurs but it seems unfair that sighted people, who may have graduated from massage college and worked as a masseur for years, may be banned from their livelihood.
Z
