Gwangyang Steelworks, 2021 Global Model Citizen Week Begins

POSCO Gwangyang Steelworks, 11,533 Employees Including Partners Participate
Eight Days of Volunteer Activities with Various Themes from June 1st

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik] POSCO has designated the period from the 1st to the 8th as ‘POSCO Global Good Citizen Week’ and will carry out various volunteer activities together with POSCO Group employees worldwide.

‘Global Good Citizen Week’ is a special volunteer week in which all POSCO Group employees participate together. POSCO renewed the ‘Global Volunteer Week,’ which has been operated since 2010, into ‘Global Corporate Citizen Week’ in 2020 by linking the corporate citizenship management philosophy with the intention of voluntarily participating in solving global social issues.

Gwangyang Steelworks plans to focus on eco-friendly activities that revitalize the local community, which has been stagnant due to COVID-19, and protect the environment during this Global Good Citizen Week. A total of 11,533 people from POSCO employees and 53 partner companies will participate at Gwangyang Steelworks.

During the event period, employees will strictly adhere to COVID-19 social distancing guidelines while engaging in various volunteer activities utilizing their individual expertise, skills, and talents.

On the first day of Global Good Citizen Week, the 1st, Gwangyang Steelworks conducted a joint labor-management volunteer service with the Talent Volunteer Group, Labor Union, and Labor-Management Council in Seonso Village, Jinwol-myeon, Gwangyang City. The volunteer group spent a meaningful time collecting abandoned fishing nets along the nearby coast, making EM (Effective Micro-organism) soil balls using eco-friendly microorganisms, and throwing them into village streams to purify the water.

Additionally, during the eight days of Global Good Citizen Week, Gwangyang Steelworks will conduct untact volunteer activities by donating study desks and chairs, scarves, and scrubbers made directly by volunteer members. They will also harvest plums together in sister villages facing labor shortages and purchase ingredients at the local five-day market to invigorate the local economy.

On the upcoming 3rd, to promote local community volunteerism, Gwangyang City, the Steelworks Partner Companies Association, the Gwangyang City Village Leaders Association, and the Gwangyang City Love Sharing Welfare Foundation will sign an MOU to support vulnerable groups, spread a culture of sharing, and cooperate on social contribution activities, taking the lead in realizing a volunteer city.

A Gwangyang Steelworks official said, “With growing interest in protecting the environment recently, we hope that eco-friendly volunteer activities will spread environmental protection in daily life,” and added, “As global good citizens, we will support the stagnant local community through various activities and overcome difficult times together.”

Meanwhile, during the Global Good Citizen Week, which runs until the 8th, Gwangyang Steelworks plans to carry out diverse and special themed volunteer activities, including supporting the smart farm construction project for the self-reliance of low-income families and holding the 3rd-year launch ceremony of ‘Dagachi Kiumae,’ a growth support project for children from multicultural families.

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