Corporate Social Responsibility
Overview
We are growing hand-in-hand with the local community through a wide range of
regularly scheduled community service activities.
Community service groups
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- CharLOTTE IT Supporters
- An IT talent donation program for children in local communities.
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- CharLOTTE Community Service Group
- We contribute to society through regular volunteer activities.
Activities
We are actively engaged in numerous CSR programs that span different areas and
benefit socially disadvantaged groups and the local community.
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- ‘Sharing Life’ with blood donation
- LDCC employees participated in blood donation activities with the Korean Red Cross. We
believe this 'sharing life' activity would stabilize the supply in blood for emergency
patients especially during winter.
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- Making mufflers with love
- Over 200 employees including executives and new recruits joined the campaign 'muffler with
love.' The mufflers will be delivered to local children's centers and low-income families.
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- Lunar New Year Gift Box Making With New Recruits
- In January, in time for the Lunar New Year holidays, our new recruits made gift boxes
containing hand-knit scarves and other daily necessities to share with those in need.
The event was a meaningful opportunity for our new recruits to gain a deeper
understanding of the value of sharing.
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- Bead Crafts for Children
- The CharLOTTE Community Service Group visited the Geumcheon-Youngjae Regional Children’s
Center in April, inviting children from the local community to come and take part in
bead crafts together with our team. The children were delighted to craft unique
accessories such as bracelets and necklaces for themselves and their friends.
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- T-shirt Making
- In May, the CharLOTTE Community Service Group participated in 'beads art work' to decorate
T-shirts. The T-shirts were delivered to local community centers to support children.
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- DIY Activities
- Last June, employees in each division made DIY leather handicrafts and
delivered their love to underprivileged neighbors.
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- Cookie Making
- More than 100 new employees shared their love with neighbors through cookie-making
activities.
It was a time when all the new recruits who took the first step in society were full of warm
laughter.
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- Ice Bucket Challenge
- In September, at LOTTE Center in Gasan-dong, 50 employees participated in the Ice Bucket
Challenge
to cheer for those suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
LOTTE Data Communication will always support them and their family.
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- Winter Kimchi Sharing
- Last October, at Yangjae aT Tower, 1,100 members of LOTTE group gathered to make kimchi for
neighbors.
By making over 10,000 kimchis we could share and communicate with love for neighbors.
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- Kimchi Sharing for Local Community
- In November, 21 executives and employees participated in a volunteer service
to make kimchi for local neighbors. This event has been held for 13 years,
will be continued for regionbal communities.
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- Briquette Delivery Service
- Last December, Charlotte community service visited 'Ant-village' in Hongje-dong and
delivered 1,200 briquettes to the elderly living alone and other neighbors in preparation
for the cold winter, making it a season of love through CSR.
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- Mural Painting With the Hamsaram Regional Children’s Center
- In May, the CharLOTTE Community Service Group visited the Hamsaram Regional Children’s
Center in Siheung-dong to decorate the facility with a giant mural. To make the
children’s home a brighter place to be, our volunteers carefully covered the stairs and
fences with paintings of things from nature, such as trees and flowers. In the evening,
the children living at the facility returned after school and joined us in decorating
their home.
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- Weeding in Siheung Stream
- In June, the CharLOTTE Community Service Group visited the Siheung Stream in
Geumcheon-gu. Led by a forest guide who pointed out invasive plant species preventing
the proper growth of indigenous plants, our volunteers spent the day weeding the area to
promote a healthy stream ecosystem. The day spent sweating and toiling hard to preserve
the local ecosystem was truly rewarding.
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- Improving the Educational Environment in Regional Children’s Centers
- In July, the CharLOTTE Community Service Group took part in a make-your-own-furniture
class at the Woods Wooden Handicraft Workshop in Sillim-dong. Twenty CharLOTTE members
were present at the day’s event, where they made furniture to be used at local
children’s welfare centers operated by the Hyemyeong Foundation. Volunteers attending
the day’s event had never made furniture before, but found the experience more fun and
rewarding than they had expected.
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- Community Service Day for New Recruits
- In August, the CharLOTTE Community Service Group visited the Hyemyeong Orphanage,
Hyemyeong Nursing Home, and Cheongdam Social Welfare Center to help clean and set the
facilities in order, make kimchi for the seniors and children at the facilities, and
participate in making traditional Korean Hanji paper crafts. Present at the event were
115 new Chapter 86 recruits. The event provided participants with a unique opportunity
to develop a deeper understanding of the value of sharing and embracing other members in
the community with love. It was day that was as rewarding as it was hot.
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- Recreation and CPR Education for Local Children
- In September, the CharLOTTE Community Service Group visited the Geumcheon District
Social Economy Support Center to spend time with the local children. After getting to
know one another through a recreation session, we taught the children how to administer
CPR in the case of an emergency. The entire session, which culminated in a banquet, was
filled with laughter from the children and volunteers.
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- Winter Kimchi Sharing
- Last October more than 11,000 members from the LOTTE Group’s CharLOTTE Community Service
Group descended on the aT Center in Yangjae-dong to help transform more than 15,000
heads of Napa cabbage into kimchi. The freshly made kimchi was delivered to households
in need throughout the country by the Korean Red Cross.
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- Charcoal Briquette Community Service
- Last December, the CharLOTTE Community Service Group headed to Onsu-dong in Seoul to
deliver charcoal briquettes to those in need. We're sure the smiles on our volunteers’
faces that day made Onsu-dong a little bit warmer.
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- Winter Kimchi Sharing
- More than 1,100 regular employees and directors from the LOTTE Group prepared some
15,000 heads of winter Kimchi for various neighborhoods throughout the country.
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- Cake Baking
- Our volunteers spent a meaningful day baking cakes and making memories with children in
regional children’s centers.
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- Workshop Environment Improvement
- Our team helped improve the environment of an old, run-down workshop for people with
disabilities, filling the facility with a new sense of liveliness.
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- Visit to Korean Folk Village
- We invited single-parent multicultural families hailing from Vietnam, the Philippines,
China, and Mongolia, etc. to join us on a trip out to the Korean Folk Village, where we
all had a fantastic time.
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- Honey Lemon Tea Sharing
- We worked with children to make honey-preserved lemon to donate to senior welfare
centers, giving the children a taste of the joy of sharing.
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- Adopt-an-Aunt, Adopt-an-Uncle
- Volunteers pledged to become adopted aunts and uncles of children in local children’s
centers.
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- Kimchi Sharing
- Working with partner corporations, we prepared more than 2,000 heads of kimchi for
sharing with our neighbors in need.
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- Spring Cleaning at the Orphanage
- Volunteers toiled under the warm sun to give the children’s home a nice spring cleaning.
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- Kimchi Sharing
- We prepared kimchi with volunteers from our partner corporations, sharing the love with
local communities and building an appreciation for mutual growth with the local
community.
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- Charcoal Briquette Delivery
- To help our neighbors in need stay warm during the harsh winter, our volunteers made
deliveries of much-needed charcoal briquettes.
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- Relief Work for Households Affected by Flooding
- We helped restore the homes of families whose houses had been damaged by flooding and
other natural disasters.