The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will hold a ceremony to celebrate the 6th Korean Sign Language Day... Awards for Distinguished Service and Design Contest

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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Choi Hwi-young) announced on the 3rd that it held a ceremony to celebrate the "6th Korean Sign Language Day" at the Art Theater to publicize the value and importance of Korean sign language.

"Korean Sign Language Day" is a legal anniversary designated to publicize that Korean sign language is a unique language of farmers with equal qualifications to Korean language and to raise public awareness of Korean sign language. This year's ceremony was organized as an event to announce that Korean sign language is not only the mother tongue of the deaf, but also a valuable language and cultural asset of our society as a whole under the theme of "Today connected to language, Tomorrow connected to culture!"

At the ceremony, a commendation from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism was given to encourage those who have contributed to the spread and development of Korean sign language. ▶Pyo Min-ae, president of Dangjin-si of the Chungnam Deaf Association, who contributed to the education of sign language in infancy and the promotion of farmers' right to know and language for unschooled deaf people, and ▶ Korea's only sign language literature organization, 'Sookmin Dlee', received commendations.

In addition, the award ceremony for the "Korean Sign Language Day Sign Language Design Contest," which was held for the first time to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the enactment of the "Korean Sign Language Act," was also held. In the contest, 65 participating teams were judged, and a total of 11 teams were selected, including the grand prize (1 team), the best prize (2 teams), the excellence prize (3 teams), and the incentive prize (5 teams), and the Korea Deaf Association Presidential Award and the prize money were awarded. In particular, the grand prize work is used as a design for event souvenirs.

We hope that the "Korean Sign Language Day" will shed new light on the linguistic and cultural values of Korean sign language and lay an important foothold for a society where farmers and peasants harmonize together, a policy official of the Ministry of Culture said. "The Ministry of Culture will continue to provide policy support so that Korean sign language can be used more widely in everyday life and become a respected language connecting cultures."

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