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CEOs of the Hyosung Group announced on April 28 their commitment to ESG management at the 19th CEOs Ethical Management Oath Ceremony held at Finland Tower in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, hosted by the BEST ESG Forum. At said ceremony, the CEOs of five affiliates—Hyosung Corporation as the holding company, Hyosung TNC, Hyosung Advanced Materials, Hyosung Heavy Industries, and Hyosung Chemical—renewed their resolve to do their best to place priority on the following: ▲putting carbon neutrality into practice; ▲working together for the realization of social values; ▲ working together to spread the ESG culture throughout the industries; and ▲building a better society and a better environment for the future generation. ″Ethical management is not a matter of choice, and we all should set it as the basis of corporate management. I′ll lead others in the realization of SDGs through ESG management,″ Hyosung CEO & Vice Chair Kim Kyoo-young vowed. The Hyosung Group has consistently run programs for the voluntary observance of the rule of fair transactions as part of ethical management. Top managers have renewed their commitment to ethical management at every available opportunity including Ethical Management Oath of the CEOs, declaration of their willingness for voluntary observance of the rule of fair transactions, BIS summit anti-corruption oath, etc. The group has also come up with the code of ethics and guidelines for putting it into practice and held educational sessions for employees concerning ethical management and fair transactions. The BEST ESG Forum run by the Institute of Industrial Policy Studies (IPS) is a private forum launched in March 2003 to foster an ethical corporate culture in industries and spread ethical management. It holds said oath ceremony every year in an effort to have ESG management established as a solid culture. The accumulated number of those who have attended the ceremony comes to about 1,120 from 420 businesses. This year alone, 140-plus business people and those from social/academic organizations attended the ceremony.
Hyosung strives to help the disabled get back their beautiful smile through the dental service on wheels. On April 27, Hyosung donated KRW 20 million to a program designed to provide support for dental service on wheels for the disabled by paying a visit to Nexon Children′s Rehabilitation Hospital run by the Purme Foundation in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. The donated fund is to be spent for dental service and oral health education on wheels. This year, Hyosung and the Purme Foundation will work together to provide said service for the 310-plus disabled at welfare facilities. Hyosung started to provide dental service on wheels such as this to the disabled in 2017. Hyosung engages in a variety of social contribution activities designed to help the disabled with rehabilitation. They include support for operation of barrier-free cinemas for the disabled and provision of support fund for Onnuri Sarang Chamber Orchestra, etc.
The headquarters of Hyosung Advanced Materials Corporation(HAMC), held a "Mapo Han River Plogging" activity on Thursday, 21st of April to memorate the national “Earth Day”.Plogging is a combination of the Swedish word "plockupp" which means "pick up the grains" and the English word "jogging" which means the act of picking up trash while jogging.This plogging is one of the various biodiversity activities planned by HAMC this year, attended by about 20 executives and employees of the headquarters cleaning areas in between Wonhyo Bridge and Sogang Bridge.Moreover, HAMC plans to continue its various biodiversity activities starting this May such as activities protecting oceans involving executives and employees, protecting and preserving endangered animals and plants.As preserving biodiversity is one of the essential activities to global climate change today, HAMC plans to create a culture that conducts not just cleaning the environment but to embrace individuals’ awareness and behaviors towards global environmental issues in addition to cleaning the environment.
Hyosung Advanced Materials visited the "Yeong Nak Aenea’s Home," a nursing facility for children with severe disabilities in Huam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, on the April 20th, 2022 to deliver donations to purchase wheelchair inner seats. Wheelchair inner seats are items that require customization and periodic replacement for children and adolescents with different disabilities and development levels, and are essential aids for the for children with disabilities in wheelchairs. In addition, HAMC also sponsored the cost of installing oxygen generators, oxygen saturation meters in preparation for emergencies, and as well as rides for their entertainments. Meanwhile, the relationship between Hyosung Advanced Materials and the " Yeong Nak Aenea’s Home" has been going on for 10 years since 2012. Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, executives and employees of Hyosung Advanced Materials visited Yeong Nak Aenea’s Home every month to serve meals, and held sports competitions with employee volunteers every year and delivered donations and daily necessities for the holidays. Hyosung Advanced Materials, which has been recognized for its continued CSR activities to Yeong Nak Aenea’s Home, has been selected as a company recognized for community contribution by the the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Social Welfare Council for three consecutive years from 2019.
On April 12, Hyosung Advanced Materials attended the Climate Ambition Acceleretor(CAA) Program Launching Ceremony, which support companies to set ambitious goals to achieve the Science Based Target (SBT). The CAA program, which will be carried out for six months, is run by UNGC on a global level for its member companies. 16 companies including Hyosung Advanced Materials will participate in Korea.Hyosung Advanced Materials plans to set an ambitious target in line with the 1.5℃ pathway through this program, and accelerate the transition to Net-zero.
Hyosung donated KRW150 million for programs designed to help disabled children in their medical rehabilitation and provide support for their families run by the Purme Foundation on April 6. Hyosung′s relationship with Purme Foundation dates back to 2013, ten years ago. Hyosung′s donation is spent on a variety of rehabilitation treatments for disabled youths, education/psychological treatment of their non-disabled siblings, trips with families of Hyosung employees, concerts held with their families invited, etc. The donation provided by Hyosung this year will be spent on the rehabilitation treatment of 20 disabled youths and education/psychological treatment of their 25 non-disabled siblings, etc. Twenty families of the youths receiving support from the Purme Foundation will also be invited to accompany the families of Hyosung employees on family trips. By making such donation, Hyosung expects the following good results: restoration of mind and body of disabled youths; psychological stabilization of their non-disabled siblings; and expansion of opportunities for self-development. ″We will continue to provide support so there will be no gaps in the treatment of disabled youths and their families due to the prolonged COVID-19 situation,″ Hyosung Chairman Cho Hyun-joon said, commenting on the matter. Other things that Hyosung has done in connection with what is stated in the foregoing include the provision of support for the operation of barrier-free cinemas for the disabled and provision of support fund for replacing instruments of Onnuri Sarang Chamber Orchestra, etc.
