Korea’s Communications Commission (KCC) is distributing another 20,000 TV sets customised for visually/hearing-impaired viewers as part of a support programme that has been running since 2000. 

This year’s target is 5,000 more than last year, the KCC says. 

Applications for the free/subsidised 40-inch HD smart TVs open today (2 May) and run to 26 May 2023. 

The sets have built-in functions for the disabled, such as voice guidance on operation menus, separation of closed captions and sign language screens, and enlarged sign language broadcasting screen ratio. 

Almost 240,000 units had been distributed by the end of 2022.