Why Spend 20 Million Won on ‘Motnani Apples’? Because of the Joyful Sharing

National Health Insurance Service Busan Gyeongnam Headquarters, Local Agricultural Products Happiness Sharing Project
Purchased Apples from Typhoon and COVID-19 Affected Farms to Gift 870 Vulnerable Households

The Busan-Gyeongnam Regional Headquarters of the National Health Insurance Service (Director Jang Su-mok) visited an apple farm in Danjang-myeon, Miryang-si, Gyeongnam on the 24th to hold the "Local Agricultural Products Happiness Sharing Donation Ceremony."

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) employees set out to find the ‘Motnani’ apples on the 24th. The ones who cherished these Motnani apples were the apple farmers in Danjang-myeon, Miryang-si, Gyeongnam.

To help the farms damaged by the recent typhoon, a loving hand reached out all the way there.

The Busan Gyeongnam Regional Headquarters of the National Health Insurance Service (Director Jang Su-mok) held a ‘Local Agricultural Products Happiness Sharing Donation Ceremony’ at the Danjang-myeon apple farms that day.

The Local Agricultural Products Happiness Sharing Project is one of NHIS’s initiatives that directly purchases agricultural products from farms struggling due to COVID-19 and typhoon damage and supports low-income vulnerable groups in the region.

It is a win-win project that supports both local farms and low-income vulnerable groups simultaneously.

The total fund supported through this happiness sharing project amounted to 20 million KRW. It was used to purchase ‘Motnani apples’ from Miryang apple farms and support 870 low-income vulnerable households in the Gyeongnam region.

At the donation ceremony, Director Jang Su-mok, employees from the Miryang Changnyeong branch (Branch Manager Lee Geon-hyung), and staff from the Community Chest of Korea Gyeongnam branch gathered to share smiles after a long time.

Director Jang Su-mok said, “I hope this will be a source of strength for both the local farms and the vulnerable groups in the Gyeongnam region who have had a hard time this year due to COVID-19 and typhoon damage. We will continue to be a headquarters that can coexist with the local community.”