South Korea was commended for the way it facilitated the Winter Olympics, yet in the main version of its volunteer handbook, distributed in January, it believed it important to remind volunteers, known as the Passion Crew, that "a female incapacitated is additionally a female individual". So is it prepared to have the Paralympics?
South Korea is renowned worldwide for its innovation and quick pace, its troublesome association with North Korea and obviously K-Pop which burst on toward the Western music scene with Gangnam Style. In any case, it hasn't generally been as ground breaking with regards to ladies, particularly in the event that they're impaired.
"Ladies would never be legends," travel author, Seoul-occupant and handicap campaigner Seyoon Jane Hong, 30, says.
"Until the twentieth Century, everything was male-focused.
"Indeed, even now on the off chance that you are youthful, you may encounter injustice. When you're a lady, persecution is included. What's more, if there is an incapacity, it is triple segregation."