Hite Jinro Donates Scholarships to Children of Firefighters... Expands Support Scale This Year
On the 8th, at the Hite Jinro Cheongdam-dong headquarters, Hite Jinro CEO Kim In-gyu (first from the left), Fire Agency Welfare Officer Lee Jong-jae (first from the right), and bereaved families attended the scholarship donation ceremony for children of firefighters.
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] HiteJinro announced on the 9th that it will provide emergency living expenses for bereaved families and scholarships for the education of firefighters' children as part of its support project for firefighters.
On the 8th, HiteJinro held a donation ceremony for living expenses for bereaved families and education expenses for firefighters' children at the HiteJinro headquarters in Cheongdam-dong. The ceremony was attended by HiteJinro CEO Inkyu Kim, Welfare Manager Jongjae Lee and Officer Hoeyoung Jung from the National Fire Agency, officials from the Korea Firefighters Association, and bereaved families of firefighters.
Since 2018, HiteJinro has been supporting emergency living expenses and scholarships to comfort the families of deceased firefighters and help their children achieve social independence. Since last year, it has also supported litigation costs such as attorney fees to help firefighters who died by suicide due to work-related stress or illness be recognized as having died in the line of duty. This year, including litigation support, the aid was provided to a total of 22 people, expanding the scale of support.
HiteJinro CEO Inkyu Kim said, “We want to offer some compensation for the noble sacrifice of firefighters who died in the line of duty or due to illness while protecting the lives and safety of the public, and to help their children achieve social independence. We hope that HiteJinro’s continuous support project for bereaved firefighter families will raise social awareness and bring hope and comfort to firefighters and their families.”
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Meanwhile, since signing a business agreement with the National Fire Agency in 2018 to “improve the treatment of firefighters’ families and raise public safety awareness,” HiteJinro has conducted support programs for firefighters’ bereaved families every year, including scholarships, consolation payments, and healing camps, and plans to continue these efforts going forward.
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