Grandmother Running a Real Estate Agency in Her Seventies Donates 70 Million Won to Samyook University

Worked as a Real Estate Agent for 42 Years
Received Many Scholarship Benefits for Daughter During Difficult Times
Donated Part of Assets While Organizing Property

Yoo Yoon-soon, who donated 70 million KRW to the foot care fund at Samyook University (Photo provided by Samyook University)

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] Samyook University announced on the 28th that Yoon Yoon-soon (74), who operates a real estate agency in Sinwol-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, donated 70 million won to the university development fund.

Ms. Yoon, originally from Nonsan, Chungnam, came to Seoul in the 1970s and started working at construction sites and sewing factories. Later, encouraged by those around her, she settled in Sinwol-dong and has worked as a real estate agent for 42 years. Although she had to take a break from work in recent years due to rare incurable diseases such as Beh?et's disease, asthma, and hip replacement surgery, she is still actively working at the age of over seventy.

She did not charge brokerage fees to elderly people in difficult circumstances and secretly sent rice and fruits to poor people in the neighborhood. Until her daughters bought them for her, she never bought cosmetics or a single piece of clothing with her own money and rarely dined out, practicing frugality.

Ms. Yoon said, "During difficult times, my daughter received a lot of scholarship benefits while attending Samyook University. It is my daughter's alma mater and currently the workplace of my daughter and son-in-law. Out of gratitude, I decided to donate part of my assets to Samyook University while organizing them." She requested that the fund be used primarily to support students who have been struggling due to the impact of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

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