Politics · South Korea · 2 hrs ago
Disability budget scheme helps children start football class in Naju
Children with disabilities and their caregivers started a local football class in Naju, South Korea.
They used the disability personal budget scheme, which lets eligible people turn part of their service vouchers into a budget for services they choose.
The scheme has been running as a pilot since 2024 and covers people eligible for at least one of four disability support vouchers.
The class offers an activity that was not available through the existing government support system.
The case shows how personal choice can create services in the community through private providers.
A senior official from the health ministry visited the children and heard their views.
The ministry plans to expand the scheme into a full programme based on the pilot.
A disability individual budget scheme helped participating children and their guardians establish a local football class for children with disabilities in Naju.
The scheme lets eligible disabled people use part of their service vouchers as an individual budget to buy goods or services under a plan they make themselves.
South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said the class shows how individual choices can create services not previously available through the existing government support system.
First Vice Minister Hyun Su-yeop met participating children at Naju Sports Town on October 13 and heard their views.
The scheme has been running as a pilot since 2024, and the ministry plans to expand it into a full program.
- Who
- Children participating in the disability individual budget scheme and their guardians established the class.
- What
- They set up a local football class for children with disabilities using the scheme.
- When
- The ministry said Hyun Su-yeop visited on October 13, 2026.
- Where
- Naju Sports Town in Naju, South Korea.
- Why
- The children wanted to play football, and the scheme lets eligible people use part of their service vouchers to buy services they choose.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The disability individual budget scheme began its pilot program.
Hyun Su-yeop visited participating children at Naju Sports Town and heard their views.
Ministry officials and other representatives held football games and a sharing activity for children, and gave them T-shirts and sneakers.
- Location
- Naju Sports Town, Naju, South Korea
- Scheme
- Disability individual budget scheme
- Pilot began
- 2024
- Eligible support
- Four voucher types, including personal assistance and developmental rehabilitation
- Class
- Local football class for children with disabilities
What people are saying
The individual budget scheme is a system that helps disabled people design and decide their own lives.
Like this case, where a disabled child’s small wish to play football on a field led to the establishment of a local football class for children with disabilities, we will do our best to ensure the individual budget scheme takes root as a system that effectively guarantees the choices and self-determination of disabled people.
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