Large Corporations Providing Facilities Amid Bed Shortage in Daegu and Gyeongbuk

Hanwha Lifepark Panorama

[Asia Economy Reporter Hwang Yoon-joo] Domestic conglomerates have decided to offer their training centers and other facilities as treatment centers as the shortage of hospital beds in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions worsens due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

Samsung has decided to provide the Samsung Human Resources Development Center in Yeongdeok as a treatment center. This is the first case among private companies. It is known that the Samsung Economic Research Institute's Social Contribution Research Office, Samsung Human Resources Development Center, and Samsung Electronics, the owner of the training center, agreed to share the facility and first conveyed their intention to share it with the government.

The Samsung Human Resources Development Center provided by Samsung is located near Chilbosan in Byeonggok-myeon, Yeongdeok-gun. Completed in 2015, it is used as a resting space for Samsung Electronics employees and their families. It has about 300 rooms, and the dining hall can accommodate 220 people simultaneously.

LG provided dormitories and training centers as residential treatment centers. With a total of 550 rooms, it is the largest scale supported by a single company.

The facilities provided by LG are the LG Display dormitory in Gumi with 383 rooms and the Uljin LG Life Training Center with 167 rooms.

The LG Display dormitory in Gumi is located in the 2nd industrial complex in Gumi-si, Gyeongbuk. With a total floor area of 25,000㎡, it has 267 studio-type rooms with bathrooms and 116 apartment-type rooms with two bedrooms and bathrooms, accommodating up to 499 people. The Uljin LG Life Training Center is a recreational facility for employees with a total floor area of 22,000㎡ and 167 rooms.

Hanwha Group is the third among the top 10 groups to open its Hanwha Lifepark training center as a place for isolation treatment of COVID-19 patients.

Hanwha is the first to decide to provide a private training facility as a residential treatment center outside the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions. Anticipating demand for residential treatment centers for mild patients in the Seoul metropolitan area including Seoul and Gyeonggi, they proactively decided to offer the facility.

Hanwha Lifepark, located in Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, is a smart training facility opened in April last year to train digital financial professionals for Hanwha Life employees and financial planners (FPs). The site area is 82,000㎡, and the total floor area reaches 30,000㎡. It is used as an educational facility for about 12,000 Hanwha Life employees and FPs annually.

It has 200 rooms individually equipped with beds, bathrooms, shower facilities, TVs, and Wi-Fi in two accommodation buildings. Hanwha has been reviewing other uses of this facility to prevent the spread of COVID-19 since the end of January.

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