S-OIL holds charity event “Sharing Tteokguk with S-OIL” to deliver warm love on occasion of Lunar New Year’s Day
● On Feb. 11, S-OIL CEO Al-Mahasher offered tteokguk (rice cake soup) in shantytown, Yeongdeungpo, together with officers and employees.
- The refiner has offered tteokguk and delivered a New Year gift package to lonely neighbors for nine years.
S-OIL Corporation(CEO: Nasser Al-Mahasher) held a charity event “Sharing Tteokguk with S-OIL” at Kwangya Church, Yeongdeungpo, Seoul on Feb. 11 ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.
At the church’s free meal center for the homeless, S-OIL CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher and some 100 S-OIL officers and employees made tteokguk (rice cake soup) themselves and offered it to about 500 people, including old people living alone in single-room occupancy housing, disabled people, and homeless people around the area. In addition, they delivered a New Year gift package, which contained rice cake, beef, tangerines and ramens, etc., to 500 households living in single-room occupancy housing near Yeongdeungpo Station.
“Since I came to Korea, I’ve visited this place every year ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday to eat tteokguk, the representative national holiday food of Korea, along with local residents and to help with their preparation for the Lunar New Year,” said CEO Al-Mahasher, who delivered a gift package in person to people living in the shantytown and offered tteokguk to local residents. “I hope that needy people living here could feel S-OIL officers’ and employees’ warm love and that they can spend a happy New Year’s Day this year, feeling less lonely.”
For nine years since 2007, S-OIL officers and employees have made and offered tteokguk to the homeless and people living in single-room occupancy housing around Yeongdeungpo Station. The refiner has provided diverse volunteer services for the underprivileged in communities. On Feb. 4, S-OIL donated 2,034 bags of rice worth 100 mil. won to Ulsan City, where its refinery is located, to help needy people in the region.
