Gwangyang City Selects This Year's Best CEO Award, Best Worker Award, and Industrial Peace Award

CEO Byeong-Yeol Ra of Shinseong Plant Co., Manager Jung-Geun Yoo of POSCO Co., and Worker Representative Yu-Young Kim of Froms Co. Selected

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Gwangyang City held the Corporate Love Public Review Committee and finalized and announced this year’s awardees of the ‘CEO Award, Best Worker Award, and Industrial Peace Award,’ recognizing those who contributed to regional development, the spread of a pro-business culture, and labor-management harmony.

This year’s recipients of Gwangyang City’s ‘CEO Award,’ ‘Best Worker Award,’ and ‘Industrial Peace Award’ were selected as CEO Ra Byung-yeol of Shinsung Plant Co., Ltd., Manager Yoo Jung-geun of POSCO Co., Ltd., and Worker Representative Kim Yoo-young of Froms Co., Ltd., respectively.

Shinsung Plant Co., Ltd. (CEO Ra Byung-yeol), selected for the ‘CEO Award,’ was established in 1993 and is a company that designs, manufactures, and supplies reactors, refiners, and heat exchangers, which are core technologies in heavy chemical industries.

Shinsung Plant was highly evaluated for its transparent and responsible management philosophy, strengthening corporate competitiveness through technology development and quality improvement, and contributing to regional development by returning management profits to society.

Manager Yoo Jung-geun of POSCO Co., Ltd., selected for the ‘Best Worker Award,’ joined the company in 1988 and is a top expert (Quality Master) in quality inspection across all product types such as cold rolling and plating, contributing to the improvement of automotive steel sheet quality. Since 1998, he has also been highly recognized for his dedication to crime prevention through 22 years of autonomous patrol activities, youth guidance activities, and achieving 5,000 hours of volunteer mileage, practicing sharing as a member of the local community.

Froms Co., Ltd. (Worker Representative Kim Yoo-young), selected for the ‘Industrial Peace Award,’ is a company supporting operations at POSCO Gwangyang Steelworks’ hot rolling, cold rolling, and thick plate factories. Since its establishment in 2006, it has practiced respect for humanity and employee impression management based on labor-management harmony.

It was highly evaluated for its contribution to establishing a corporate culture of trust and communication between labor and management by forming a workplace council to improve labor welfare and working conditions, fostering a win-win labor-management culture through trust, consideration, and communication.

Kim Myung-won, Vice Mayor and Chairman of the Gwangyang City Corporate Love Public Review Committee, said, “We thank the businesspeople and workers who contributed to regional development despite the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” and added, “We will continue to do our best to create an atmosphere of mutual growth through communication between labor and management, making Gwangyang the ‘No. 1 economic city in Jeonnam’ and a ‘business-friendly city.’”

Meanwhile, the Gwangyang City Corporate Award was first introduced in 2012, and until last year, a total of 23 businesspeople have been honored. Awarded companies receive various benefits, including a 1% additional preferential interest rate on small and medium enterprise loans for three years, priority support for administrative and financial support projects, and invitations to major city events.

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