Gwangyang Steelworks Practices Warm Sharing Through Volunteer Activities in Its Sister Village

Partnering with Local Villages for Hands-On Support, Environmental Cleanups, and Facility Repairs
Providing Tailored Volunteer Services Including Agricultural Machinery and Gate Repairs

On May 17, Gwangyang Steelworks of POSCO (headed by Ko Jae-yoon) carried out a special volunteer activity in Adong Village, Jinwol-myeon, Gwangyang City—its sister village—spreading a spirit of warm sharing to local residents.

The “sister village” initiative is a program launched by Gwangyang Steelworks in 1988 to deepen its volunteer engagement. As of now, the steelworks maintains sisterhood ties with approximately 84 villages.

The Gwangyang Steelworks Agricultural Machinery Repair Volunteer Team is repairing agricultural machinery in a sister village. Provided by Gwangyang Steelworks.

Each affiliated department forms a partnership with a sister village and practices coexistence and mutual prosperity with local residents through a variety of support activities, such as purchasing regional agricultural specialties, helping out during the busy farming season, repairing village facilities, and environmental cleanups.

Gwangyang Steelworks has maintained its relationship with Adong Village since they became sister villages in 2016.

On this day, more than 30 members of the Agricultural Machinery Repair Volunteer Group visited the village, conducting a major environmental cleanup and providing agricultural machinery repair services.

The volunteer team not only repaired cultivators used by residents, but also worked on repairing and installing new gates at individual homes.

Since its first activity in 2014, the Agricultural Machinery Repair Volunteer Group has repaired a total of 481 agricultural machines and facilities at 744 households, steadily fostering a warm culture of sharing in the community.

Moon Byeongdu, a manager at Gwangyang Steelworks who participated in the volunteer activity, said, “Every time we visit, I feel a sense of pride when the villagers greet us with smiling faces,” adding, “We will continue our steady volunteer efforts so that these sister village activities can be sustained in the future.”

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