GS Retail Provides Emergency Relief Supplies to Repatriated Wuhan Residents

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] GS Retail is urgently providing relief supplies worth 100 million KRW to Chinese evacuees from Wuhan who returned due to the novel coronavirus.

On the 31st, GS Retail announced that in cooperation with Jincheon City, it will support food and daily necessities for Wuhan evacuees and international students who have been evacuated to the quarantine facility in Jincheon, Chungcheongbuk-do due to the novel coronavirus.

The emergency relief supplies provided to the evacuees include food items such as lunch boxes, bottled water, and cup noodles, as well as hygiene daily necessities like Yours wet wipes, Garglin mouthwash, and toothpaste and toothbrush sets. This includes about 10,000 lunch boxes worth 80 million KRW for two weeks (3 meals a day), 12,000 bottles of water, 2,000 Omori kimchi stew cup noodles, and three types of Yours hygiene products (500 wet wipes, 500 mouthwash bottles, and 500 toothpaste and toothbrush sets).

In particular, GS25’s fresh food dedicated factory, Woori Delica, located in Jincheon, is being utilized as a base to allow the evacuees to choose their preferred menu for each meal.

Meanwhile, GS Retail continues to carry out support activities to assist in emergencies requiring urgent relief, such as the spread of the novel coronavirus. In the past, relief supplies were delivered to areas affected by the wildfire evacuation in April last year, the sinkhole damage in Gasan-dong in August 2018, the Pohang earthquake in November 2018, and the wildfire in Gangneung in May.

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