'LG Hero Award' for Park Eon-hwi, who volunteered free medical services for 28 years

Total of 222 LG Hero Award Recipients

LG Welfare Foundation announced on the 1st that it awarded the 'LG Hero Award' to Park Eon-hwi (69), who has been volunteering free medical services for 28 years, and Bae Jeom-ok (52), who has been providing beauty volunteer services for 29 years.

Based on his experience working at the leprosy village health center in Seongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do in 1996, Park Eon-hwi has continued free medical volunteer work for 28 years. Since becoming an internist, Park has regularly visited medically underserved areas such as Ulleungdo, Dokdo, Sorokdo, and overseas regions including Vietnam and the Philippines to provide free medical services. Until recently, he has continued contract medical care by visiting health centers, welfare facilities, and facilities for the disabled to check the health status of the elderly and provide necessary health management. Over 28 years, Park has cared for more than 15,000 patients free of charge.

Since 2004, he has donated over 100 million KRW annually in vaccines such as flu vaccines to marginalized groups, and since 2012, he has supported disabled choir groups and volunteer teams.

LG Hero Award recipient Park Eon-hwi.
[Photo by LG]

Bae Jeom-ok obtained a beauty technician certificate in Busan in 1995 and has volunteered at welfare centers and nursing homes while working as an instructor. In 1998, after being hired as an instructor at a beauty academy in Ulsan, she began providing free beauty services in earnest by visiting a welfare facility for the disabled in Buk-gu, Ulsan. After acquiring the beauty academy where she worked in 2005, she has led volunteer activities with her students through the Ulsan beauty volunteer group 'Haneul Hanmaeumhoe' and the beauty volunteer group for disabled welfare facilities 'Roadhoe.' When volunteer activities at facilities or hospitals became impossible due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she continued beauty volunteer work by visiting elderly and disabled people with mobility difficulties directly.

An LG official stated, "We awarded the Hero Award to these two individuals in hopes that their noble spirit of neighborly love, who have quietly walked the path of volunteering in their own ways for neighbors in need, will spread further in our society."

The LG Hero Award was established in 2015 reflecting the late Chairman Koo Bon-moo's intention that "the company repays social responsibility to heroes who sacrificed themselves for social justice." Since Koo Kwang-mo, CEO of LG Corporation, took office in 2018, the award scope has expanded to include ordinary citizens who have quietly devoted themselves to volunteering and good deeds for others over a long period throughout society. To date, a total of 222 people have received the LG Hero Award.

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