(From left) Yoon Seok-heon, Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, Son Bong-ho, Chairman of Hope Friends Kia Support, and Heo In, President of KB Kookmin Bank, are taking a commemorative photo.
[Asia Economy Reporter Park Sun-mi] KB Kookmin Bank announced on the 5th that it held a non-face-to-face Seollal traditional market sharing event together with the Financial Supervisory Service and Hope Friends Korea Food for the Hungry to revitalize traditional markets and share love with neighbors in need during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Through this event, Kookmin Bank has purchased goods with Onnuri gift certificates at traditional markets every holiday and delivered them to neighbors in need. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, it has supported traditional markets through non-face-to-face shopping starting from Chuseok last September.
On this day, Yoon Seok-heon, Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, and Hur Yin, CEO of KB Kookmin Bank, personally purchased gifts to be delivered to neighbors in need using the ‘Traditional Market Mobile Shopping Application (app)’ from their offices.
The Financial Supervisory Service and 13 regional sales groups of Kookmin Bank plan to purchase food and daily necessities worth about 60,000 KRW per household at traditional markets nationwide and deliver them to approximately 4,500 households in need. Since 2011, KB Kookmin Bank has delivered goods worth about 5 billion KRW to a total of more than 79,000 households through this event.
Governor Yoon said, “I hope today’s sharing will be well delivered to neighbors in need and help them have a warm holiday.”
CEO Hur also said, “I hope this event, which has continued for 11 years, will bring vitality to traditional market merchants struggling due to COVID-19 and contribute to revitalizing the depressed local economy.”
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