● S-OIL CEO Al-Qahtani delivered Chuseok gift packages to 900 low-income households in Mapo.
S-OIL (CEO Hussain A Al-Qahtani) held charity event “Sharing Songpyeon with S-OIL” at the Seongsan Social Welfare Center (President Sim Jung-won), Ewha Woman’s University in Mapo-gu, Seoul on September 7, and offered gift packages worth 50 million won to low-income families.
S-OIL delivered the gift packages that contained Songpyeon and other groceries as well as daily necessities like face masks to prevent the infection of COVID-19 to 900 low-income households in Mapo-gu, including recipients of National Basic Livelihood Security, single-parent families, disabled people and elderly people living alone, and they distributed food at a cafeteria for the elderly, spending pleasant time together with neighbors in the community.
“To my knowledge, Chuseok is a meaningful holiday to Koreans when people celebrate the autumn harvest and share food with neighbors,” said CEO Al-Qahtani. “I hope that S-OIL’s small gifts will deliver warmth to neighbors who have to spend a lonely Chuseok holiday while suffering hardships amid the pandemic.”
S-OIL has held the charity events of serving tteokguk (sliced rice cake soup) on Lunar New Year's Day and sharing Songpyeon on every Chuseok to help local residents have a warm holiday season.
