YEOSU — "It added warmth to the Chuseok table and vitality to local seafood."
Ahead of the Chuseok holiday, GS Caltex once again delivered its annual gifts to Yeosu, a city in Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Metropolitan City.
GS Caltex said it held the "2026 Chuseok Sharing of Warmth with GS Caltex" event on the 15th at Exhibition Hall D of the International Pavilion at the Yeosu Expo site. The gifts this year are worth 130 million won.
Attending the event were Yeosu Mayor Seo Yeong-hak, Yeosu City Council Chair Ju Jae-hyeon, Jeong Cheol-seop, chair of the Yeosu Community Social Security Council, Jin Ki-seop, head of GS Caltex's facilities plant, and Kim Ki-eung, head of the company's SHE and external cooperation office. About 70 officials from local welfare facilities and volunteers also took part. Ten members of the GS Caltex employee volunteer corps and Hansothoe, an association of the company's retirees, helped package the goods.
This year, GS Caltex is delivering 934 bags of 20-kilogram white rice, worth about 50 million won, to 128 social welfare facilities in the Yeosu area. It is also providing holiday food packages worth about 40 million won to a total of 700 households, including 600 low-income vulnerable households and 100 households of North Korean defectors.
The packages contain glass noodles, thin wheat noodles, pancake mix, white sugar, beef bone broth, spicy beef soup, soy sauce, instant rice and sesame oil — items needed both for preparing holiday meals and for everyday cooking.
This year's giving also carried a message of regional partnership. GS Caltex arranged support for seafood produced in Yeosu to cheer on the successful hosting of the 2026 Yeosu World Island Expo and to help boost the local economy.
"We are grateful to GS Caltex for looking after neighbors in need in our community and sharing the warmth of the holidays every single year for 22 years," Mayor Seo said. "This year is all the more meaningful because we are also delivering local seafood, carrying our wish for the successful hosting of the Yeosu World Island Expo."
"We have been able to continue sharing this warmth with an unchanging heart since 2005 because of the trust and support of the local community," said Jin, head of the facilities plant. "This seafood support offers practical help to vulnerable groups while also promoting consumption of local seafood, which carries the meaning of mutual growth."
GS Caltex's "Chuseok Sharing of Warmth" program began in 2005 and has continued for 22 years, making it a signature holiday giving activity in the Yeosu area. Through this year, the company has delivered more than 1.9 billion won in goods and donations to the local community.
