CSR Activity report
ECCK CSR Activity Report Q3 2021
Seoul St. Mary's Hospital Held an Employee Blood Drive to Save Lives, Facing Blood Shortage
Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Catholic University of Korea hosted an employee blood drive from July 27th to 29th. Recently, a nation wide blood shortage has occurred as the number of donators has dropped due to low national birth rates and large blood drives have been cancelled due to the pandemic.
The hospital has launched employee blood drives for 30 years since 1992 to help patients in need of transfusion. This year, medical staffs who are fully vaccinated collected the blood from a large number of participants, strictly observing disease control measures.
"Blood donation is one of the most special ways to save lives and to share love with your neighbors. I hope more people join the blood donation," said a professor of the Department of Laboratory Medicine.
Bae, Kim & Lee LLC to Represent an Iranian Refugee on Obtaining Refugee Status Lawsuit
Bae, Kim and Lee LLC (“BKL”) represented on the obtaining refugee status lawsuit for Iranian refugee, Mr. Mohammad Hassan, on a pro bono basis. He and his son arrived in Korea in 2010 and both converted to Christianity while living in Korea. They applied for refugee recognition based on the fear of being persecuted for religion because Muslims who convert to another religion are charged as criminals in Iran, but only his son was granted as a refugee but not himself. So he filed a lawsuit to revoke government’s decision of non-recognition. With efforts to convincing the court that the authenticity of conversion should not be judged by high standards as well as right to family reunification should be recognized on humanitarian grounds, the plaintiff, represented by BKL, succeeded in appealing the government decision. He has finally been recognized as a refugee after this court judgment became final and conclusive on June 2021.
Shin&Kim LLC Joins the ‘Gwanghwamun-One-Team’ to Overcome the Covid-19 Crisis
Shin & Kim LLC has been making various efforts since 2014 to help North Korean Refugees settle in the South Korean society, including mentoring, providing scholarships, holding English speaking contests and start-up competition for North Korean Refugees. With the difficulty in face-to-face education of the North Korean Refugees due to COVID19, Shin & Kim LLC took a film to show the North Korean Refugees the legal knowledge they need in their everyday life in South Korea. Law education consists of a total of six series, including contracts, inheritance, criminal suits, labor laws, voice phishing, intellectual property rights. Shin & Kim LLC lawyers shared professional knowledge to help North Korean Refugees, and Shin & Kim LLC PR team members also shared the technology to film the law education video for North Korean Refugees. This online education film will be completed and distributed to the North Korean Refugees starting from August.
BASF Korea helps hungry children through ‘Yesan Happy Two Meals Project’
BASF Korea established a sustainable safety net together with Happy Alliance, a social contribution network, to tackle child hunger in Yesan County by signing a business agreement to run a joint campaign “Yesan Happy Two Meals Project” on July 12th, 2021.
The Happy Two Meals Project aims to end child hunger and guarantee at least two meals a day for children who are isolated from welfare system.
Through this agreement, about 50 children in Yesan region who can’t afford enough meals due to the economic slowdown in the prolonged coronavirus pandemic and the lack of a daycare environment will be supported.
Since 1954, BASF Korea has been creating chemistry for a sustainable future and putting the highest value on the corporate social responsibility. BASF Korea has also been running BASF Kids’ Lab for twenty years and supporting the dreams of children to nurture future leaders in our society.
Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™- The Smart City Safety Net Program
Qualcomm has been expanding “The Smart City Safety Net Program” to Eumseong-Gun, Uiwang-City, Siheung-City. This program connects with the public safety communication infrastructures with the vulnerable who are in need of emergency response. Through the Program, led by Qualcomm Incorporated as part of the Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™ initiative, Smart City Association and the participating cities work together to secure the safety of beneficiaries. When beneficiaries are in an emergency, they can immediately alert their registered guardians, link with local CCTV centers and the police by activating Qualcomm-enabled communication wearable devices. It was launched earlier this year in Hwaseong-City for the children, dementia patients in the city and is expanding to other cities and schools for the disabled.
Porsche Korea Presents the CSR Public Art Project, “Dream Art Ttareungi” (tentative name), in Partnership with the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Last June Porsche Korea announced an expansion of its corporate social responsibility projects to include “Dream Art Ttareungi” (tentative name) in cooperation with the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.
“Dream Art Ttareungi” focuses on a public art project that not only utilizes the design chosen by citizens on public bicycles in Seoul (“Ttareungi”) through a public design contest, but also to increase environmental awareness by expanding the use of public bicycles in Seoul. This brand new Porsche Korea CSR project is within the culture segment, following on the heels of the “Porsche Do Dream Fill the Space” campaign which ensured support for performing artists through the purchase of tickets for empty seats at performances experiencing low turnout due to COVID-19 social distancing regulations. With this new project, Porsche Korea moves forward in its ambition to highlight the importance of art and culture as well as to provide opportunities for Korean citizens to enjoy artwork in their daily lives.
Porsche Korea and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture held a design contest from June 7th to July 2nd under a theme titled “Sustainable Mobility Art of Seoul, eco-friendly city.” A young talented artist, Kippeum Park, won the final prize and was selected to be given an opportunity to enhance her design by attending a mentor session with Roland Heiler, Managing Director of Porsche Design Studio in Zell am See/Austria, as well as a member of the management team of Porsche Lizenz – und Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. Her final work will be exhibited on 365 bicycles in Seoul and these bicycles will be launched in November 2021.
Porsche Korea believes the arts and a sustainable environment play a central role in a thriving society. Through Porsche Korea’s various CSR activities that launch new social and environmental initiatives, Porsche Korea aims to make a positive contribution to society. Porsche Korea will always seek as many ways as possible to help ensure support for, and promote the enhancement of, citizens’ daily lives.
*All Porsche Korea CSR events were held while still taking all necessary precautions due to COVID-19.