The Current Situation of Employment of Persons with Internal Organ Impairments and the Tasks to Promote their Employment in Japan and South Korea

摘要

Even though the number of persons with internal organ impairments who registered their disabilities is small, it has steadily increased, but their employment rate is still very low; in Japan, the kinds of internal organ impairments had increased since 1967 through 1998; and in South Korea, as the categories of disabilities have been expanded, those of internal organ impairment have been expanded. Even though the kinds of internal organ impairments have been expanded and the population with internal organ impairments has also increased, the studies on internal organ impairments have not been actively carried out. Therefore, this study aimed to find out the tasks to promote the employment of persons with internal organ impairments in Japan and South Korea by analyzing the current situation of their employment and considering the problems in it, since the systems of both countries are similar. As for this study, the pertinent data to the employment of persons with disabilities that had been disclosed by both governments were analyzed and the precedent studies were collected and analyzed to find out its problems and tasks for the promotion of their employment. In the results of analyzing the current situation of the employment of persons with internal organ impairments and its problems in Japan and South Korea, it was found that the tasks have to be undertaken; the creation of diverse jobs that are proper for persons with internal organ impairment