SK Innovation Partners with SK Sugar Gliders to Host Handball Classes for Children with Developmental Disabilities

SKI, SK Sugar Gliders, and KNSU Sign Business Agreement
Handball Classes to Be Held at Four Special Schools in Seoul and Daejeon
Over 3,000 SK Innovation Members to Participate as Volunteers

SK Innovation is operating a handball education support project for children with developmental disabilities in the Seoul and Daejeon areas. To this end, it signed a business agreement with Korea National Sport University and SK Sugar Gliders, the women's handball team of SK Enmove.

On the 16th, SK Innovation announced that on the previous day, the 15th, it signed a business agreement at the SK Seorin Building in Jongno-gu, Seoul, with SK Sugar Gliders and Korea National Sport University (KNSU) to operate a handball education support project that enhances the physical development and social adaptation abilities of children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. They plan to run handball classes for children and adolescents with developmental disabilities at four special schools located in Seoul and Daejeon.

Jonghyuk Park, General Manager of SK Sugar Gliders (from left), Junhyun Ahn, Head of Communications at SK Innovation, and Geun-ah Ahn, Director of Industry-Academic Cooperation at Korea National Sport University, are taking a commemorative photo after signing an agreement for a handball education support project for children with developmental disabilities at the SK Seorin Building in Jongno-gu, Seoul the previous day. SK Innovation

Since last year, SK Innovation has been piloting a customized handball class program for developmental disabilities, jointly developed by SK Sugar Gliders and the Department of Special Physical Education at KNSU, at two special schools in the Seoul area. SK Innovation stated that this program has proven highly effective in improving the emotional and physical functions of children with developmental disabilities and has received positive feedback from schools and parents, leading to its operation as a regular curriculum.

This year, about 3,000 members of the SK Innovation group will participate as volunteers in the handball classes. SK Sugar Gliders players and SK Innovation members will teach children with developmental disabilities on a one-on-one basis in the handball classes. The costs required to operate the handball classes will be supported by the '1% Happiness Sharing Fund,' which is funded by SK Innovation group members donating 1% of their salaries.

An SK Innovation official said, "The number of children and adolescents with developmental disabilities in Korea is increasing, but social care activities are significantly lacking," adding, "We hope this will help children with developmental disabilities grow healthily and develop their social adaptation abilities."