Kyobo Life Insurance "Safety and Eco-Friendliness First: Successful Completion of 'Kkumnamu Sports Festival'"

At the Kyobo Life Insurance Cup Dream Tree Sports Competition swimming awards ceremony held on the 2nd at the Gimcheon Indoor Swimming Pool in Gimcheon-si, Gyeongbuk, swimmer Kim Seung-won (Yongin Gyodong Elementary School), who won two crowns, is holding up his gold medal. (Photo by Kyobo Life Insurance)

[Asia Economy Reporter Changhwan Lee] Kyobo Life Insurance announced on the 22nd that it successfully concluded the '2022 Kyobo Life Insurance Cup Dream Tree Sports Competition,' held over the past month in Gimcheon and Yeongcheon, Gyeongbuk, and Seoul.

Kyobo Life Insurance has been hosting the Kyobo Life Insurance Cup Dream Tree Sports Competition since 1985 to discover and nurture young sports talents early and to revitalize basic sports disciplines. It is the only nationwide comprehensive youth sports competition in the private sector.

This year's competition started with athletics on the 10th of last month and included seven events: judo, gymnastics, tennis, swimming, ice skating, and table tennis, with about 3,500 promising elementary school athletes participating. Including coaches and managers, the total number of participants reached approximately 5,000.

The company explained that many eye-catching athletes participated, given the large number of promising talents in basic sports disciplines.

Kim Seungwon, a promising Korean female backstroke swimmer from Gyodong Elementary School in Yongin, set two new competition records and won two titles. The table tennis prodigy siblings, Lee Seungsu and Lee Yeseo from Dongmun Elementary School in Daejeon, won together in the 5th-grade and 1st and 2nd-grade table tennis categories.

Since this year's Dream Tree Sports Competition was the first nationwide event in three years, emphasis was placed on 'safety' and 'eco-friendliness.' Considering that COVID-19 has not yet ended, safety was prioritized in the event's operation. The company also stressed that great effort was made to incorporate the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) concept through eco-friendly event management.

Kyobo Life Insurance conducted pre-event safety inspections at all venues, installed and distributed quarantine management manuals, and established temporary isolation rooms and emergency contact systems. They also provided individual quarantine supplies, maintained them at all times, appointed quarantine managers, and secured designated short-distance hospitals.

Kyobo Life Insurance upcycled all banners used during the competition into special products such as shoe bags and shopping bags. Employees personally painted designs and added signatures of stars who previously participated in the Dream Tree Competition, including Woosanghyuk (athletics), Shin Yubin (table tennis), and Jo Sehyuk (tennis), adding more meaning. About 800 of these reborn products will be donated to participating athletes, schools, and traditional markets in the host cities.

A Kyobo Life Insurance official said, "The Dream Tree Sports Competition, held for the first time in three years due to COVID-19, was successfully completed. We hope that participating students will share the values of sports such as cooperation and challenge beyond competition and victory, and grow into individuals with healthy physical strength and wisdom for coexistence."

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