Gwangyang Steelworks Rolling Department Leads Year-End Warmth Sharing with Neighbors

Delivery of Essential Items Including Knee Blankets to the Association of the Visually Impaired

As the year-end and New Year approach, POSCO Gwangyang Steelworks is actively expanding its social contribution activities.

On the 27th at 11 a.m., employees of the Rolling Division at POSCO Gwangyang Steelworks visited the Gwangyang branch of the Korea Association of the Blind, preparing sets (for 50 people) consisting of thermal underwear, knee blankets, and sleeping socks, along with beef, oysters, and rice cake soup worth a total of 3 million KRW. They delivered warm year-end atmosphere and hopeful messages for the New Year to the visually impaired.

[Photo by Gwangyang Steelworks]

This sharing event was held after the Rolling Division of Gwangyang Steelworks was selected for the 2023 Change My Town Season 2 project by the POSCO 1% Sharing Foundation, aimed at helping vulnerable groups have a warm winter.

Additionally, during the event, Park Jong-il, Deputy Head of the Rolling Division, along with employees, Hwang Ho-sun, President of the Gwangyang Saemaul Women's Association, and women’s association leaders from the towns and villages, personally prepared food to share warm rice cake soup with local disabled neighbors for the year-end and New Year.

In particular, the Korea Association of the Blind presented plaques of appreciation to Jeong Hyun-sik, leader of the POSCO Rolling Communication Section, and Kim Yong-deok, manager, in gratitude for their wholehearted support over the past year, sharing a warm moment of community spirit.

Meanwhile, the Rolling Communication Section of Gwangyang Steelworks has been actively engaged in various social contribution activities, including donating three educational PCs (worth 3 million KRW) through the 2023 Change My Town Season 1, contributing 2 million KRW from the proceeds of the Rolling Division’s Beautiful Companion Harmony Festival, donating 68 bags of rice (worth about 2 million KRW) from the Gwangyang Steelworks Director’s group award, providing 6 million KRW for the POSCO 1% Mari Channel’s “Together, One Step at a Time” outing project for the visually impaired, and supporting daily necessities through the Happiness Package.

Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik hss79@asiae.co.kr