대법원, 영화관 자막·화면해설을 '상영 횟수의 3%'로 제한한 2심 파기…서울고법으로 돌려보내

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On September 3, the Supreme Court's First Division quashed the part of the lower ruling that the plaintiffs had lost, in a discrimination-relief suit brought by two blind people and two deaf people against CJ CGV, 롯데컬처웍스 and 메가박스중앙, and sent the case back to the Seoul High Court. In the suit, which began in February 2016, the example the plaintiffs gave was 도가니, a film released in 2011 that dealt with the violation of deaf people's human rights. Yet deaf people themselves could not watch that film. The appeal court had held that where the seats in all the auditoriums of a multiplex come to more than 300, it was enough to provide subtitles and audio description in one auditorium or more, only for screenings amounting to 3% of the total. The Supreme Court said it was hard to accept that standard, because it weighed only the financial burden on the defendants too heavily. At the hearing that day the court provided sign language interpretation for the deaf plaintiffs, and it also drew up and handed out, for the first time, an 'easy-read' version of the ruling written in plain language instead of legal terms.