[One Day Ten Thousand Steps] Gathering Warm Steps to Make Walking Easier for People with Disabilities

Woori FIS, an information technology specialized affiliate of Woori Financial Group (CEO Ko Jeong-hyun), conducted a company-wide health challenge called "Woori Warm Steps," a 100 million-step walking challenge for all employees, from September 1 to 21. "Woori Warm Steps" is a project that donates 50 million KRW to socially vulnerable groups upon achieving a combined total of 100 million steps by all employees.

The funds raised were delivered on the 13th to the Korea Spinal Cord Injury Association (President Jeong Jin-wan) and LBS Tech (CEO Lee Si-wan) to support the verification of pedestrian navigation data. The donation will be used for verifying pedestrian navigation to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. The verification team, composed of people with disabilities, plans to confirm accessibility information for pedestrian navigation for the disabled by the end of this year.

Our FIS employees are holding a walking event to communicate.
[Photo by Our FIS]

To this end, the Korea Spinal Cord Injury Association is recruiting a data verification team of people with disabilities. The Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled (Director Cho Hyang-hyun) and LBS Tech are jointly conducting a big data accessibility verification project collected through the Sisi Gak Gak (視視各各) project. The Sisi Gak Gak project means "gathering each eye (視) to become the eyes (視) of people with disabilities." Since 2022, about 50,000 pedestrian accessibility big data entries have been uploaded by public and corporate employees nationwide. The collected data undergoes validation by artificial intelligence (AI) and the disabled verification team to build a barrier-free pedestrian navigation system that provides accurate building entrances and wheelchair routes.

Ko Jeong-hyun, CEO of Woori FIS (left), is delivering donated items to a social welfare facility in Gangseo-gu.
[Photo by Woori FIS]

Director Cho Hyang-hyun said, "Building a barrier-free pedestrian navigation system through the operation of the disabled verification team is the first step toward creating a city where transportation-vulnerable people can move safely," adding, "We will continue to closely cooperate with many organizations to promote meaningful social contributions for local communities." Ko Jeong-hyun, CEO of Woori FIS, stated, "The donation created through our steps carries the meaning of contributing to improving the walking environment for people with disabilities using information technology (IT)," and added, "We will continue to sustain these valuable steps going forward."

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