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- 27.02.2025 08:53:00
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A disabled Korean girl wrote her thesis by writing letters one by one with her eyes closed and managed to get a master's degree. Jang Ik-sun, 37, was diagnosed with an incurable disease at the age of five that causes her muscles to weaken and gradually lose the ability to move. Despite this, she did not stop her desire to learn. She can only communicate through eye movements and speech. “It was very difficult to scan each book, but it was the only way to read them,” she said at her graduation ceremony.
In addition to her academic work, Jang runs a YouTube channel called “Ik-sun Jang, the Man Who Blinks 10 Million Times” (@eyegamer1), which aims to raise awareness about the disease. “Patients like us with muscular dystrophy are invisible to society. "I want to bring them from the shadows into the light," he said.