Resolving Childcare Imbalance... Hana Financial Supports Over 400 Childcare Centers

Provision of Educational Content and Smart Education Equipment

Hana Financial Group will support over 400 childcare institutions nationwide to address the imbalance in childcare infrastructure between the metropolitan area and regional areas.

On the 9th, Hana Financial announced this plan for the 'Regional Childcare Institution Education Environment Improvement Project' during the 'ESG-linked Early Childhood Education Program for Children in Childcare-Vulnerable Areas' held the previous day at Mipyeong Hana Public Childcare Center in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do.

Accordingly, over the next three years, the group plans to support more than 400 childcare institutions nationwide, including about 200 daycare centers, kindergartens, and children's centers located in childcare-vulnerable areas such as rural fishing villages.

Among these, approximately 300 childcare institutions will receive free online and offline access to early childhood ESG-linked financial and economic education content developed directly by Hana Financial Group. Additionally, around 100 childcare institutions in vulnerable areas will be provided with smart educational equipment. Notably, the group will implement the financial sector's first ESG economic education content program for children under seven years old, called 'Hana iChakhan Financial Education.'

Meanwhile, the event held at Mipyeong Hana Public Childcare Center in Yeosu was part of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry ERT (Entrepreneurship Roundtable) '3rd Together Sharing Project.' Attendees included Woo Tae-hee, Executive Vice Chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Lee Dong-woo, Vice Chairman of Lotte Holdings; Lee Eun-hyung, Vice Chairman of Hana Financial Group; and Jeong Ki-myung, Mayor of Yeosu. Mipyeong Hana Public Childcare Center is the twentieth childcare facility under the '100 Childcare Center Construction Project,' which Hana Financial Group has been promoting since 2018 with an investment of 150 billion KRW.

Vice Chairman Lee said, "Beyond the quantitative expansion of childcare facilities achieved by the group, Hana Financial Group will take the lead in improving the quality of education, including enhancing the educational environment, so that children can receive education as good as anywhere else even at regional childcare institutions."

Eunhyung Lee, Vice Chairman of Hana Financial Group, is taking a commemorative photo after conducting an ESG-linked early childhood economic education program for children in childcare-vulnerable areas at Mipyeong Hana Public National Childcare Center in Yeosu, Jeonnam on the 8th. (Photo by Hana Financial Group)