NongHyup Bank announced on Oct. 17 that it signed a business agreement with the Jeonbuk Provincial Office of Education to create “classroom forests” for the implementation of student-centered future education.
The signing ceremony was attended by about 10 officials from NongHyup Bank and the Jeonbuk Provincial Office of Education.
The two institutions agreed to actively cooperate with each other in implementing a carbon-neutral school and expanding ESG value realization education by creating a “forest” for classrooms.
Classroom Forest is a practical environmental education activity where endangered air purifying plants and eco-friendly flowerpots selected by NASA are placed in learning spaces, and students directly experience planting and replanting.
This program is expected not only to raise young students’ environmental awareness but to increase the effects of improving emotional stability and educational environments with the help of companion plants.
“Through this business agreement, we hope that youths who will lead the future will pay attention to the preciousness of nature and the importance of environmental issues,” a NongHyup Bank official said.
“Through the Classroom Forest Program, students will learn about the value of coexistence and symbiosis in their lives and grow into adults who understand the value of ecosystems,” Superintendent of Education Seo Keo-seok said.
“I expect this program to keep students healthy by providing a nice classroom environment and to contribute to their emotional stability.”
Helping Farmers in Busy Farming Season
NongHyup Bank said on Oct. 14 that employees of the Compliance Department at NongHyup Bank visited a strawberry farm in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province to help farmers during the farming season.
Moreover, employees of the Seoul Central Business Department of NongHyup Bank gave a helping hand to a farm in Deokyang-gu, Goyang of Gyeonggi Province.
On Oct. 13, NongHyup Bank Vice President Lee Soo-hwan and employees of the Management Support Department visited and helped farmers at a grape farm in Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong of Gyeonggi Province.
They also went to a welfare center for the disabled and held a rice sharing event to donate rice to the center.
In the social contribution campaign “Love Rice Sharing Campaign,” 100 10-kg bags of rice were delivered to the Dul Daseot Haenuri Welfare Center for the Disabled and the Byeolbit Nuri Welfare Center.
This event showed employees’ warm hearts to support farmers having difficulties in securing laborers during the busy farming season.
Abundant Autumn Gift Event for Customers
From Oct. 11 to Nov. 21, NongHyup Bank will hold the Abundant Autumn Love Gift Event which will give prizes to customers who participated in various activities such as signing up for new savings and installment savings products and writing supportive comments on SNS channels.
The event will be held in three parts. The first part is for customers who applied for the event through Internet Smart Banking or All One Bank during the event period among newly selected customers of the Hanaro Family at the end of September.
Through a lottery, each of the ten first-place winners will receive a rural town love gift certificate (100,000 won), and each of the 200 second-place people a food delivery mobile gift certificate (20,000 won).
The second event will target customers of the Hanaro family who signed up for savings and installment savings products and applied for the event through the internet, smart banking or All One Bank.
Each of the 10 first-place people will take home a rural town love gift certificate (100,000 won) and each of the 500 second-place winners a food delivery mobile gift certificate (20,000 won).
The third and final event will give Starbucks Americano mobile coupons to 200 selected customers who followed NongHyup Bank’s official Instagram or Facebook accounts and left comments on the event page.
The details of the event can be found on the event page of NongHyup Internet Smart Banking and All One Bank or at NongHyup Bank’s branches or Customer Happiness Center.
