Corporate Social Responsibility
- Overview
- Activities
Overview
We are growing hand-in-hand with the local community through a wide range of regularly scheduled community service activities.
Our CSR value system
Our CSR value system
Activities
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- Before 2017
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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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.