Employees of LG Electronics (066570.KS) made songpyeon rice cakes and pan-fried dishes at a welfare center for people with disabilities ahead of Chuseok, the Korean autumn harvest holiday.
LG Electronics said on Sept. 17 that its Life's Good volunteer team, made up of company employees, visited the Yeomni Day Care Center for People with Disabilities in Seoul's Mapo District on Sept. 15 for a Chuseok volunteer event.
The volunteers prepared holiday food including songpyeon and jeon, or savory pan-fried dishes, together with people who use the center, and played yut, a traditional Korean board game. They also delivered rice cakes prepared in advance.
The Yeomni Day Care Center is a welfare facility for people with severe brain lesion disabilities, operated under the Korea Social Service Association. The Life's Good volunteer team has carried out volunteer work in partnership with the association since 2014.
The cost of the activity was covered by the "giving menu" at LG Electronics' employee cafeteria. Under the in-house donation program, the cafeteria offers meals with fewer side dishes than regular menus and sets aside the savings as donations. Cumulative donations have reached about 300 million won ($216,000) since the program began in 2011.
LG Electronics also runs a volunteer leave program that allows employees up to eight hours a year of paid time off on weekdays for volunteer work. Employees have used more than 40,000 hours of volunteer leave since the program started in 2013.
