Kumho Tire Wins 'Korea Education Donation Award' Hosted by Ministry of Education

[Asia Economy Reporter Suyeon Woo] Kumho Tire announced on the 4th that it received the '2020 Korea Education Donation Award' hosted by the Ministry of Education in recognition of its contribution to revitalizing education donations.

Now in its 9th year last year, the 'Korea Education Donation Award' is given annually to outstanding organizations and individuals who have actively carried out education donation activities. Kumho Tire was honored for the third time in 2020, following awards in 2015 and 2016, in recognition of its achievements in various education donation activities.

Kumho Tire's representative education donation activity is the 'Hope Study Room' program, launched in 2016 to improve the educational environment for adolescents from low-income families. This project, which provides PCs, furniture, and other environmental improvements to create a better study environment for low-income adolescents in the metropolitan area, began through an in-house social contribution idea contest and has completed 23 branches to date.

Kumho Tire participated in the '2020 Education Donation Expo' hosted by the Ministry of Education last month and conducted a non-face-to-face children's traffic safety education event. Photo by Kumho Tire

In addition, Kumho Tire is focusing on planning online non-face-to-face educational programs in line with the COVID-19 pandemic era. Starting with children's traffic safety education through traffic safety kits and traffic safety videos, it has conducted cyberbullying prevention education and school violence prevention education using social network services.

On the 17th of last month, Kumho Tire participated in the '9th Korea Education Donation Expo 2020' hosted by the Ministry of Education and conducted a live broadcast of children's traffic safety education via a video conferencing system.

Kang Jin-gu, Head of Management Support Team at Kumho Tire, said, "Due to COVID-19, we expanded non-face-to-face education for children and adolescents, aiming to contribute not just through simple donations but by creating social value," adding, "We plan to continue various non-face-to-face social contribution activities in the future."