Small and Medium Enterprises Sector Delivers Emergency Relief Supplies for Heavy Rain Damage

The Korea Federation of SMEs (Chairman Kim Ki-moon) and the SME Love Sharing Foundation (Chairman Son In-guk) announced on the 18th that they delivered emergency relief supplies worth 100 million KRW to residents affected by heavy rain at the Goesan County Office in Chungcheongbuk-do.

The emergency relief supplies consisted of daily necessities such as bottled water, ramen, gim (seaweed), and ready-to-eat meals, as well as food trucks, and were delivered to three areas severely affected by the heavy rain: Mungyeong City and Yecheon County in Gyeongbuk, and Goesan County in Chungbuk. The Korea Supermarket Cooperative Federation also participated by donating daily necessities worth 10 million KRW.

The Korea Federation of SMEs and the SME Love Sharing Foundation plan to assess heavy rain damage nationwide and support recovery efforts and the living conditions of disaster victims. They are conducting a fundraising campaign targeting 1 billion KRW in sponsorship donations from the SME sector to help victims of the heavy rain. Additional support activities such as providing daily necessities and food trucks according to the situation at nationwide evacuation shelters for disaster victims will also be carried out.

Kim Ki-moon, Chairman of the Korea Federation of SMEs, said, "The SME sector has helped disaster victims of heavy rain every year, but there has never been a year with damage as severe as this one," adding, "With the belief that the small sincerity of SMEs becomes a great strength to the victims, many SMEs will join in helping the victims."

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