Woori Financial Group Officially Sponsors Modern Pentathlon National Team Athlete Jeon Woong-tae

Woori Financial Group held a sponsorship agreement ceremony for modern pentathlon national team athlete Jeon Woong-tae on the 13th at the Woori Financial Group headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul. Sohn Tae-seung (right), Chairman of Woori Financial Group, is taking a commemorative photo with athlete Jeon Woong-tae.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jin-ho] Woori Financial Group announced on the 14th that it held a sponsorship agreement ceremony with modern pentathlon national representative athlete Jeon Woong-tae, who won a bronze medal at the recent Tokyo Olympics. The event took place at Woori Financial headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul, with Chairman Sohn Tae-seung in attendance.

Athlete Jeon Woong-tae is the first South Korean modern pentathlon medalist to win a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which concluded last August. Modern pentathlon is a competition where the total score is determined by combining points from five events: fencing, swimming, equestrian, athletics, and shooting.

Woori Financial Group decided to sponsor the athlete, focusing on the characteristic of modern pentathlon that requires balanced skills across all events rather than specializing in a particular discipline, aligning with Woori Financial’s direction of balanced, sustainable, and global growth across all group companies.

Additionally, Jeon Woong-tae was highly praised for demonstrating South Korea’s potential on the global stage by winning the Olympic medal in a sport previously dominated by foreign athletes.

Woori Financial plans to provide long-term support so that Jeon Woong-tae can focus solely on training for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games as well as the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Chairman Sohn said, “With relentless perseverance, Jeon Woong-tae achieved the remarkable feat of winning an Olympic medal in the modern pentathlon, a previously underdeveloped sport, bringing hope and pride to the people,” and added, “We will actively support him through various means such as training assistance and encouragement funds so that he can fully demonstrate his skills.”

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