BGF and Police Agency Hold Visiting '2020 Child Safety Citizen Awards'

Unlike traditional award ceremonies, officials visit the recipients of the Citizen Hero Award
Three exemplary citizens who raised public awareness each receive a prize of 10 million won

Mr. Gu Chang-sik (center), who rescued 18 residents including a newborn during the mixed-use complex fire in Ulsan last October, is taking a commemorative photo with his family after receiving the BGF Child Safety Citizen Award in the Citizen Hero category.

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] BGF Group and the National Police Agency announced on the 20th that they held the ‘2020 BGF Child Safety Citizen Award’ to recognize citizen heroes who contributed to child safety activities this year.

Now in its second year, the BGF Child Safety Citizen Award was held as a visiting awards ceremony to comply with social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This newly introduced visiting awards ceremony delivered the awards to the recipients’ locations, allowing their families to present the awards directly, adding special significance to the event.

In the citizen hero category of the BGF Child Safety Citizen Award, three individuals?Mr. A, Mr. Jomanho, and Mr. Guchangsik?were selected for saving children in danger, each receiving a certificate of appreciation, a plaque, and a prize of 10 million won.

The first recipient, Mr. A, was highly recognized for being the first to discover the abused child in Changnyeong last May, which sparked public outrage and raised national awareness about child abuse.

After finding the child who had run away from home to escape continuous abuse by the parents, Mr. A temporarily sheltered the child at the nearby CU Changnyeong Daehap store, where he, along with the store staff, took care of the child’s wound treatment and meals, and even accompanied the child to the police station, showing exceptional kindness and care until the end.

Mr. Guchangsik and his family rescued 18 residents, including pregnant women and infants, during a large fire in a mixed-use apartment complex in Ulsan last October. Mr. Jomanho demonstrated self-sacrifice by rescuing nine children from a daycare center vehicle that had fallen into an agricultural waterway after a traffic accident in Gimpo earlier this year.

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