On November 29, When the Phone Rings' viewer bulletin board addressed concerns raised by audiences about a scene in the first episode that allegedly trivialized Korean sign language and mocked the ...
The production team is taking very seriously the criticism that “When the Phone Rings” dealt with sign language inappropriately and, in the process, mocked the deaf and Korean sign language.
Korean, known in the language itself as Kugo, is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia. In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) there are 20 million ...
“We take the feedback seriously that the drama’s depiction of sign language was inappropriate and resulted in mocking the Deaf community and Korean Sign Language. The intention was never to ...
Young-Joo Park, who is a mentor in Australian Sign Language (Auslan) for Signpedia, a deaf services provider, also taught Korean Sign Language to the participating CODA members. Two of the four CODA ...