POSCO Chairman Choi Jeong-woo.

POSCO Chairman Choi Jeong-woo said this year’s management key acronym is “JUMP” to tide over the pending management environment in a wise fashion.

Chairman Choi stressed POSCO’s ascent to the future of Corporate Korea and exemplary global citizen through “JUMP,” which stands for Join together, Upgrade value, Move forward, with POSCO.

It shows the determination to create common values and overcome hardships. Chairman Choi made the remarks while delivering his New Year’s speech at a ceremony to kick off the 2020 business year on Jan. 2.

“The management environment in which we are facing this year is more uncertain than any time ever and (we have to) create an opportunity to make a leap one more step through ‘JUMP,’ and let’s all make all-out efforts to become the future of corporate Korea and an exemplary global citizen by jumping with one mind,” he said.

Chairman Choi stressed three core tasks as the keys to good corporate citizenship - creating worksites safe and pleasant, realizing advanced labor-management culture, endless advancing of businesses, and creating common values as the keys to good corporate citizenship.

POSCO Beyond Global Youth Volunteers Conduct Activities in Indonesia

POSCO Beyond Global Youth Volunteers were engaged in the construction of schools and educational volunteering activities in Cilegon, Indonesia, from Jan. 11 until Jan. 20. “Beyond” is a volunteers team for university students, established by POSCO Group for the first time in Korea in 2007.

One hundred university students selected across the nation every year conduct diverse volunteer activities in Korea and abroad for eight months.

Beyond is a key program of an initiative of becoming and making exemplary global citizens, one of the six representative projects, announced by POSCO at a meeting of sharing performances with corporate citizens last December.

One hundred and twenty students - 100 members of the 13th class of POSCO Beyond and 20 members of Indonesia Beyond - were involved in the activities in Indonesia.

The POSCO Beyond members engaged in construction activities at five village schools near PT. KRAKATAU-POSCO in Indonesia.

They rebuilt a library in danger of collapsing and installed sinks and other facilities so that local students can study in a safe, clean environment.

It was noteworthy that the volunteering team participated in a process of putting the finishing touches to the POSCO Steel Village project of building a school, which was launched in 2018.

Twenty executives and staff members of KRAKATAU-POSCO also joined in the construction volunteering activities.

Thee volunteering team itself planned an educational program on global citizenship, designed to help Indonesian youth pay more attention to the pending social issues as environment and energy recycling, and taught Indonesian students.