S-OIL holds charity event “Sharing Songpyeon with S-OIL”

● On Sept. 25, S-OIL gives away songpyeon and gift packages to 800 low-income households in Mapo-gu, Seoul, including elderly people living alone.

On the occasion of Chuseok, S-OIL Corporation (CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher) held a charity event “Sharing Songpyeon with S-OIL” at the Seongsan Social Welfare Center, Ewha Woman’s University in Mapo-gu, Seoul on Sept. 25.

CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher and about 100 officers and employees of S-OIL made songpyeon, half moon-shaped rice cake, themselves and offered it to 800 low-income households in the Mapo area, including recipients of National Basic Livelihood Security, single-parent families, disabled people, and elderly people living alone in Mapo-gu. In addition, they wrapped gift packages, which contained groceries and daily necessities, and gave them away to the 800 households. In the event, 20 or so Saudi students studying at Korean universities also joined volunteering for making songpyeon and delivering gift packages.

“I learned that Chuseok is a meaningful national holiday in Korea when people make meals and share them with neighbors, celebrating the autumn harvest,” said CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher, who made songpyeon and delivered gift packages in person to elderly people living alone. “We hope that our small help will be a warm gift to needy people who spend Chuseok lonely.”

S-OIL has held the charity event every Chuseok for nine years since 2007 and has endeavored to help local residents. As part of the effort, on the occasion of Chuseok, the refiner donated 2,000 sacks of rice worth about 100 million won to 2,000 low-income households in the city of Ulsan ? the location of its factory ? on Sept. 24, the day before the event.