LG Uplus Conducts Education and Care Programs for Children in Yongsan-gu

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[Asia Economy Reporter Eunmo Koo] LG Uplus announced on the 13th that it will start an education and care project based on the local community in collaboration with Yongsan-gu, Seoul, and the Yongsan-gu Village Autonomy Center. This project is part of ESG responsible management aimed at the development of the local community where LG Uplus’s Yongsan headquarters is located.

LG Uplus will provide various support activities both online and offline to about 80 students at the Hyochang-dong and Yongmun-dong Children’s Centers in Yongsan-gu, including ▲‘U+ Elementary Country,’ a home study content for elementary school students ▲media pads (tablets) that can access educational content ▲and free provision of gigabit-level internet and Wi-Fi for two years.

Yongsan-gu will support elementary school students in need of care to smoothly use after-school daycare centers. Especially since regular school education has not been fully conducted due to COVID-19, the aim is to actively help vulnerable children who rely on after-school programs. It is also expected to contribute to reducing educational gaps for children who cannot afford online learning or foreign language education at home due to financial burdens.

Kim Hee-jung, head of the after-school facility at Hyochang Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, explained, “When education is conducted through video content, children’s concentration improves, and parents’ satisfaction is also high. In particular, there is a strong response because of popular English content like ‘Reading Gate.’”

Members of the Residents’ Autonomy Committee will act as mentors when children study through U+ Elementary Country to help close the academic gap. They will also carry out community care activities such as forming relationship networks for families of children receiving care. Depending on social distancing measures, the education and care project will be operated both face-to-face and non-face-to-face.

Baek Yong-dae, head of the CSR team at LG Uplus, said, “This project was realized through community cooperation based on local communities including the local government Yongsan-gu, the Village Autonomy Center, and companies headquartered in Yongsan. We hope that realizing social values such as reducing educational gaps for vulnerable children and providing care support will become a new cooperation model for ESG management.”

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