S-OIL holds charity event “Sharing Ddeokguk with S-OIL” in shantytown, Yeongdeungpo
● CEO Al-Mahasher and S-OIL officers’ and employees’ volunteer group members offer ddeokguk (rice cake soup).
- S-OIL has offered ddeokguk and delivered a New Year gift package to people living in single-room occupancy housing around Yeongdeungpo Station.
S-OIL Corporation held a charity event “Sharing Ddeokguk with S-OIL” at Gwangya Church, Yeongdeungpo, Seoul on Feb. 5.
At the church’s free meal center for the homeless, S-OIL CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher and some 100 S-OIL volunteer group members made ddeokguk (rice cake soup) themselves and offered it to about 700 people, including old people living alone in single-room occupancy housing, disabled people, and homeless people around the area. In addition, they delivered a New Year gift package, which contained rice cake, beef, instant noodles, and tangerines, etc., to 600 households living in single-room occupancy housing near Yeongdeungpo Station. The celebrity volunteer group “100-person Council for Good Society,” including TV celebrities Lee Hyo-jeong and Kim Jeong-nan, participated in the charity event.
“I am very pleased to eat Ddeokguk, the representative national holiday food, along with local residents and to help with their preparation for the Lunar New Year,” said CEO Al-Mahasher, who offered Ddeokguk and delivered a gift package in person to old people living alone in single-room occupancy housing. “I hope that needy people living here could feel S-OIL officers’ and employees’ warm love for them and they could spend a happy New Year’s Day, feeling less lonely.”
For seven years since 2007, S-OIL officers and employees have made and offered Ddeokguk to the homeless and people living in single-room occupancy housing around Yeongdeungpo Station. The refiner has provided diverse volunteer services for the underprivileged in communities. On Jan. 31, S-OIL donated 1,990 bags of rice worth 100 mil. won to Ulsan City, where its refinery is located, to help needy people in the region.
