100,000 Participants Join Baemin's Free Business Training

Publication of 'Baemin Story 2021'

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] More than 100,000 people have participated in the free business training program that Baedal Minjok (Baemin) has been conducting since 2014 to support self-employed workers in the food service industry.

Woowa Brothers, the operator of Baemin, announced on the 4th that they published the value management report "Baemin Story 2021," which contains this information. The report records Baemin's 11 years of efforts to grow together with vulnerable groups in our society and practice sharing.

According to "Baemin Story 2021," the "Baemin Academy," which has been providing free business training for self-employed food service workers for seven years since 2014, surpassed 100,000 participants as of June this year. Last year, Baemin Academy launched an online education service and conducted "Visiting Baemin Academy" in various regions. By partnering with local governments to provide region-specific training, a total of 113 people participated in four regions in the first half of this year, achieving a high satisfaction score of 4.5 out of 5.0.

Baemin has also taken the lead in improving rider welfare. The most notable initiative is the "Woowa Rider Care Fund," which supports medical and living expenses for riders involved in accidents. Established in 2019 with personal funds from Woowa Brothers Chairman Kim Bong-jin, the Woowa Rider Care Fund (totaling approximately 2 billion KRW) had provided 386.63 million KRW to a total of 67 delivery workers facing difficulties due to accidents as of August 2021.

They also disclosed the status and detailed contents of support measures to overcome the COVID-19 crisis. Since last year, Woowa Brothers has provided various support measures worth approximately 81.3 billion KRW not only to small business owners but also to local children, medical staff, volunteers, and riders. Additionally, Baemin has been delivering milk to check on the well-being of elderly people living alone to prevent solitary deaths since 2012, delivering a total of about one million milk cartons to date.

It is also noteworthy that through the function of refusing disposable spoons and forks, which was first introduced by a domestic delivery app, 14.02 million customers have helped reduce the use of disposable spoons and forks by about 200 million times. As a result, restaurants saved approximately 60 billion KRW in disposable product purchase costs and reduced waste collection costs by about 5.8 billion KRW.

Kim Beom-jun, CEO of Woowa Brothers, said, "We will continue to contemplate and practice providing services that contribute to a healthy food service industry, our society, the environment, and customers' lives."

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