Kakao Mobility Provides 2 Billion KRW Medical and Living Expense Support to Platform Workers

Last Year, Over 2,000 Workers Targeted
Expansion of Quick and On-Foot Delivery Drivers Eligible for Support
Truck Drivers Included Starting This Year

Kakao Mobility announced on the 1st that it provided benefits worth approximately 2 billion KRW, including emergency medical expenses and living costs, to about 2,000 taxi, designated driver, quick delivery, and walking delivery drivers last year.

Kakao Mobility has been operating the Medical and Livelihood Safety Support Project in collaboration with Kakao Impact since November 2022. For taxi drivers who incurred medical expenses due to illness or accident aftereffects but could not receive treatment due to financial difficulties, the company supported costs corresponding to the deductible amounts of health insurance and private insurance up to a maximum of 13 million KRW per person.

During the project period, over 25,000 consultation inquiries were made, and through this, medical welfare benefits were provided to a total of 564 taxi drivers and their families over one year. The actual amount paid was about 2 billion KRW, with an average support of approximately 3.5 million KRW per person.

Kakao Mobility also participated for two consecutive years in the Workplace Improvement Support Project for platform workers, led by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, in cooperation with the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, to improve working conditions by protecting the health rights of designated drivers, quick delivery, and walking delivery platform workers.

The platform worker health protection support project is a system that fully covers the deductible portion, which is 20% of the occupational health examination costs by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, enabling free health checkups. Through this, about 1,500 people received support for health examination deductibles last year, corresponding to benefits worth approximately 50 million KRW.

Kakao Mobility expanded the support target from designated drivers only to include quick and walking delivery drivers last year. From this year, the plan is to extend the scope to include freight truck drivers as well.

Ryu Geung-seon, CEO of Kakao Mobility, said, "We are conducting various support projects that can provide practical help to protect the health rights and improve the treatment of Kakao Mobility’s valuable partners," adding, "As part of our ESG management strategy, we will continue to consider ways to support all mobility workers to work in improved environments regardless of their usage history on the Kakao T platform."

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