Woori Financial Group and KODIT Deliver 'Woori Happiness Boxes' to Elderly Living Alone for Chuseok

Son Tae-seung, Chairman of Woori Financial Group (far right), Kim Hyun-mi, Director of the Comprehensive Support Center for Elderly Living Alone (center), and Wi Seong-baek, President of the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation, are posing for a commemorative photo at the 'Woori Happiness Box' delivery ceremony on the 15th at the Comprehensive Support Center for Elderly Living Alone in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyo-jin] Woori Financial Group announced on the 16th that, together with the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation, it visited the Senior Citizens Living Alone Comprehensive Support Center in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul on the 15th to deliver 'Woori Happiness Boxes' so that elderly people living alone could have a warm Chuseok holiday.

Considering the difficulties faced by elderly people living alone due to strengthened social distancing measures restricting movement and the closure of welfare facilities, Woori Financial and KDIC prepared the Woori Happiness Boxes with a total of 10 food items including barley rice, gim (seaweed), pickled vegetables, gochujang (red chili paste), and yakgwa (traditional Korean sweets).

Woori Financial and KDIC made the Woori Happiness Boxes using Korean agricultural products recommended by the Korea Federation of Agricultural, Industrial and Commercial Small and Medium Enterprises to support farmers going through a difficult time due to the impact of COVID-19.

Employees of Woori Bank’s nationwide sales headquarters and KDIC plan to deliver about 2,000 Woori Happiness Boxes, produced before Chuseok, to over 40 elderly welfare facilities nationwide under the Senior Citizens Living Alone Comprehensive Support Center.

Son Tae-seung, Chairman of Woori Financial Group, said, “We hope that through this support, elderly people living alone can spend a warm Chuseok. We will continue to support neighbors in need around us during difficult times and work together to fulfill the social responsibility of finance.”

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