At least 10,000 amputations occur in Korea every year as a result of accidents, infections, or injuries.
Kim Jung-hyun has been making prosthetics at Silobionic, a company established 14 years ago that manufactures, designs and customizes prosthetics.
His interest was driven by his desire to help people with disabilities and to relieve their discomfort.
"My younger sibling has a disability. Growing up, I have always wanted to do something to help people who had lost a limb, make them feel more able and give them hope. I also love working with my hands so I thought about ways of putting these two things together to help people living with disabilities," he said during a recent interview with The Korea Times.
Kim decided to become an ortho-prosthetist because that seemed like an important job to him. He was also confident about making prosthetics more lifelike so amputees don't encounter discrimination.
