GS25 Leads 'Creating Senior Jobs for the 100-Year Life Era' with Local Governments

GS Retail Signs MOU with Incheon City to Create and Promote Private Senior Jobs
GS25 Senior Store to Open in Incheon in May, Expanding Senior Employment
"Will Practice ESG by Expanding Social Contribution Convenience Stores"

(From left) Shim Jae-seon, Chairman of the Incheon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Park Nam-chun, Mayor of Incheon, and Jung Jae-hyung, Head of GS Retail Convenience Store Division, are taking a commemorative photo after the business agreement ceremony for the creation and activation of private-sector senior job opportunities.

[Asia Economy Reporter Yuri Kim] Convenience stores are becoming new job spaces for the 100-year life era.

GS Retail announced on the 22nd that it signed a business agreement at Incheon City Hall to create and revitalize private-sector senior jobs in the Incheon area, attended by key officials including Jaehyung Jeong, Head of GS Retail Convenience Store Division, Myungjong Kim, Head of GS Retail Convenience Store Support Division, Namchun Park, Mayor of Incheon, and Jaeseon Shim, Chairman of the Incheon Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Through this business agreement, both parties will form a cooperative relationship focusing on ▲ securing budgets and supporting various matters for recruiting and providing excellent personnel ▲ establishing a system for private company job placement and promotion of senior job projects ▲ cooperating to support senior job workplaces and create a favorable environment ▲ joint efforts to revitalize private-sector senior job projects.

GS Retail and Incheon City will open a GS25 Senior Store in Namdong-gu, Incheon in May. The Senior Store is a social contribution-type convenience store operated by GS25 since 2019 in partnership with the Korea Senior Human Resources Development Institute under the Ministry of Health and Welfare to provide employment opportunities for local senior citizens. Currently, 22 stores are operating nationwide, and based on this business agreement, the 23rd store (the second in the Incheon area) will be opened quickly to create jobs for seniors in Incheon.

Going forward, GS25 will actively cooperate in allocating stores for the Senior Store project in Incheon and will do its best to support facilities, IT, education, and other areas to create a good working environment for participating seniors. If seniors express a desire to start a convenience store business, GS25 plans to support franchise fees, deposits, etc., leading efforts to promote work motivation and achieve productive welfare through economic independence.

Jaehyung Jeong, Executive Director and Head of GS Retail Convenience Store Division, said, "Through the business agreement with Incheon City, an excellent institution in the 2022 senior job project, we expect to provide new vitality to seniors in the local community and support their economic independence." He added, "We will continue to create quality jobs for vulnerable groups in the community and enhance our corporate social responsibility to take a step forward as a win-win sharing company."

Meanwhile, GS Retail is also introducing various win-win model stores such as 'Naeil Store' with 116 locations supporting socially vulnerable groups and self-support workers, and 'Neulbom Store' with 2 locations supporting employment and hiring of people with disabilities, in addition to the 'Senior Store.'

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