Hyundai Motor Group Holds Launch Ceremony for 8th Class of University Student Volunteer Group 'H-Jump School'

[Asia Economy Reporter Changhwan Lee] Hyundai Motor Group announced on the 25th that it held the 8th launch ceremony of the ‘University Student Education Volunteer Group H-Jump School’ at the COEX Grand Ballroom in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

The ‘University Student Education Volunteer Group H-Jump School’ is a social contribution program for nurturing future talents by selecting university student mentors to support education for underprivileged youth, and providing the selected university student mentors with mentoring from Hyundai Motor Group executives and social professionals, as well as scholarships.

Hyundai Motor Group co-hosts the program with Kangwon National University, Kyungpook National University, Pusan National University, Inha University, the nonprofit organization Jump, and the Community Chest of Korea.

Considering the COVID-19 situation, the launch ceremony was conducted in a hybrid format combining online and offline methods, unlike previous years. The event proceeded with congratulatory speeches from Hyundai Motor Group and other related parties, followed by a presentation of activity aspirations by the representative university student mentor, an activity pledge, and a scholarship certificate awarding ceremony.

The 8th group of ‘University Student Education Volunteer Group H-Jump School’ volunteers, who will begin full-scale activities from March, consists of a total of 350 members. They will provide personalized education across all subjects and career mentoring to approximately 1,400 youths over about 10 months until December this year.

The 350 university student volunteers of the 8th group will receive benefits including ▲a scholarship of 3 million KRW ▲one-on-one mentoring with the Jump School social mentors, composed of about 300 experts from Hyundai Motor Group executives, corporations, the legal sector, and the medical field ▲career camps attended by participating youths and the Jump School mentor group, and outstanding performers will also be offered overseas exploration programs.

Since its first group in 2013, Hyundai Motor Group’s ‘University Student Education Volunteer Group H-Jump School,’ now in its eighth year, has selected 1,182 university student mentors and provided education to 4,149 youths from low-income or multicultural families.

Meanwhile, attendees at the event included Byunghoon Lee, Executive Director of Hyundai Motor Group; Woonghee Kim, Director of Student Support at Inha University; Sanggyun Kim, Secretary General of the Community Chest of Korea; and Uiheon Lee, Chairman of the nonprofit organization Jump.

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