Eom Sang-hong, Head of CSR Team at SK Innovation (left), received the '2024 Commendation for Protection of Vulnerable Elderly' from Kim Hyun-mi, Director of the Comprehensive Support Center for Elderly Living Alone (right). Photo by SK Innovation
On the 15th, SK Innovation announced that it received a commendation from the Minister of Health and Welfare for its volunteer work caring for elderly people living alone.
SK Innovation has consistently conducted volunteer activities to provide economic and emotional support to elderly people living alone across the country, visiting locations such as Seoul, Daejeon, Jeungpyeong, and Seosan, where its affiliated subsidiaries operate.
In particular, since selecting care for elderly people living alone as a focused volunteer activity in 2016, over the past nine years, more than 18,000 employees have cared for approximately 83,000 elderly people living alone.
SK Innovation and its subsidiaries, SK Energy, SK Geocentric, and SK IE Technology, have received the commendation from the Minister of Health and Welfare six times since 2017.
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