LG Awards 'LG Hero Award' to Firefighter Couple Who Rescued Foreigners Drowning in Water

Husband Firefighter Kang Tae-woo Rescues Foreign Tourist Who Fell into the Sea by Swimming Barehanded
Pregnant Firefighter Wife Kim Ji-min Saves Unconscious Patient with CPR

Firefighter Kim Ji-min

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Sun-mi] LG Welfare Foundation announced on the 27th that it awarded the ‘LG Hero Award’ to firefighter couple Kang Tae-woo (28, Chungnam 119 Special Response Team 119 Aviation Unit) and Kim Ji-min (28, Chungnam Dangjin Fire Station Gijisi 119 Safety Center) who saved a person who fell into the sea.

Firefighters Kang Tae-woo and Kim Ji-min witnessed an accident on June 18 around 5 p.m. at Waemok Village Beach in Seokmun-myeon, Dangjin-si, Chungnam, where a foreign tourist’s tube flipped over and they fell into the sea while on a family trip.

Firefighter Kang immediately swam with his bare body to rescue the tourist who had fallen into the sea, but the tourist was already in a critical condition without consciousness or breathing. At that moment, firefighter Kim calmly checked the patient’s condition and immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the spot.

At the time, firefighter Kim Ji-min was 35 weeks pregnant and in a condition that required rest, but thanks to timely emergency measures such as CPR, the foreign tourist recovered enough to breathe on their own and regain consciousness before the ambulance arrived.

Kang Tae-woo, Firefighter Assistant

Firefighter Kang said, “Both my wife and I just did what firefighters should do,” and added, “It’s just a relief that the patient regained health and that my wife and the baby in her womb are healthy.” Firefighter Kim said, “Seeing the unconscious patient, I only had the thought that I must save them first,” and added, “I will continue to live striving to be proud parents to the child who will be born soon.”

An LG official stated, “This is to encourage the courageous actions of the firefighter couple who willingly risked drowning for neighbors they did not even know and did their best to save a person despite the wife being heavily pregnant,” explaining the reason for the selection.

Meanwhile, the LG Hero Award was established in 2015 reflecting the late Chairman Koo Bon-moo’s will that ‘the company repays social responsibility to heroes who sacrificed themselves for social justice.’

Since Koo Kwang-mo became LG’s CEO in 2018, the award scope has expanded to include ordinary citizens who quietly serve and perform good deeds for others in various parts of society. To date, a total of 176 people have received the LG Hero Award.

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