Hana Financial Group Selects Additional Sites for Supporting Construction of 21 Public and National Childcare Centers

[Asia Economy Reporter Kiho Sung] Hana Financial Group announced on the 1st that it has additionally selected 21 sites for the support and construction of public daycare centers. With this, the selection of sites for the '100 Daycare Centers Project,' an ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) management activity promoted by Hana Financial since May 2018, has been completed.

The 21 newly selected sites include Heuksando in Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do, a remote island area, and Sabuk-eup, Jeongseon-gun, Gangwon-do, an inland region.

Hana Financial has been building public childcare infrastructure tailored to regional characteristics and circumstances, including small-scale daycare centers in rural and fishing villages with childcare vulnerabilities, daycare centers for children with disabilities, daycare centers established alongside local community centers, and win-win type joint workplace daycare centers that can be used by children of employees of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Since 2018, a total of 43 public and workplace daycare centers have been completed in various regions, and including 57 childcare facilities currently under construction, a total of 100 daycare centers are expected to be completed by 2023.