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HMC's support for the organization began with the company's donation of large Wingbody trucks to the first Beautiful Store in 2003. In 2004, the company held the Beautiful Saturday Event with HMC in which all employees were encouraged to participate. In 2005 and 2006, the company sent voluntary service forces to the Charity Bazaar. The company hosted another Beautiful Saturday Event with HMC in 2007 with 73 Beautiful Stores across Korea.
HMC encourages its employees to take active part in voluntary services in helping the true spirit of Beautiful Store Organization.
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In 2005 and 2006, HMC employees participated in the Charity Bazaar (also known as WBC ("We start Beautiful Stores for Charities")) hosted by the Beautiful Store Organization.
The WBC Charity Bazaar is another project hosted and led by Beautiful Store Organization that collects donations of second-hand goods from individual households for sale and uses the profit to care for impoverished children.
For two years in a row, 165 teams of HMC participated in the bazaar events, collecting over 3,000 donations and selling them for charities.
HMC co-hosted the Beautiful Saturday Event with the Beautiful Store Organization on March 27, 2004. The event succeeded in garnering more than 60,000 second-hand goods and articles from all employees of the Yangjae headquarters, the Korean sales headquarters, the after-sales service supervision headquarters, all the plants, and the research center after a two-week vigorous donation campaign.
After vice chairman Kim Dong-jin declared HMC as a "Beautiful Supporter" in a special ceremony, more than fifty employees of HMC set out to sell the donated goods they had collected at five Beautiful Stores.
The donated goods included Summer in Persimmon (2001) by the paper-doll artist Kim Young-hee; a soccer ball signed by the national soccer players at Jeonbook Hyundai Motors Soccer Team; and elaborate utensils for traditional tea ceremonies. The day's occasion was a true embodiment of the commitment of HMC employees to creat a better community.
HMC held a ceremony for the inauguration of the first-ever Moving Store on April 10, 2003 in celebration of Beautiful Store Organization, which was founded in order to support charities through recycling and reusing second-hand goods. The company donated second-hand goods employees had brought in as well as a large Wingbody truck manufactured at the Jeonju plant.
The truck has since been used as the first-ever Moving Store. It was the first vehicular donation ever made to the Beautiful Store Organization.
The Moving Store, visits homes, companies, universities, and flea markets to collect the donations of second-hand goods to deliver to Beautiful Stores safely. It is indeed a wagon that carries love and happiness.
HMC remains a big supporter of the Beautiful Store Organization after the inauguration ceremony of the Moving Store.
What does 'Hyundai Motors Company' mean to Korean people Many in the Korean public are familiar with the legends of the nation's second-largest company firmly based on the spirit that "Impossible is nothing". They likely associate the company with the images of cars with 'Hyundai' logo traveling around the world, such best-selling cars as Santa Fe and NF Sonata, Namyang Research Center, the highly publicized management-labor relations, and the massive production facility in Ulsan, which takes more than twenty minutes by drive just to go around the boundary fences. Not many, however, are familiar with the social commitment programs of the company.
First Exciting Encounter with Social Commitment Programs
The first job I took as a new employee, excited with expectations and prospects of making a career in such a large company, was to organize an event. The task adjustment meeting held shortly before had assigned me to the area of 'social commitments'. I had no idea what I was getting into.
Second Exciting Encounter
The first event I participated even before familiarizing myself with the idea of corporate social commitments was the Rice-Love Campaign. It required extensive participation from all the employees of Hyundai-Kia Motors to distribute more than 40,000 packages of rice to low-income households and social organizations across the country. It was the experience of delivering rice myself to a house that proved to be memorable. When I finally arrived at that house after spending hours on wandering through the alleys in search for the house, I was greeted by an old lady who was living alone. I cannot really shake off my mind that image of an old lady, who reminded me greatly of my own grandmother.
Third Exciting Encounter
Ever since, I have been in direct contact with the needy and the lonely of our community by organizing a variety of other social commitment programs at the company, including the Company-wide Voluntary Services Campaign leading 106 teams of volunteers; sponsorship and voluntary services for Schools in Our Neighborhood Program, organized to feed children of low-income households; Three-Leafed Clover Search Event, which helps the wishes of children who have lost family members to car accidents come true; and the launching of Shareway website (shareway.hyundai-motor.com), a website specifically devoted to the company's social commitment programs. While each and every one of these activities was fulfilling and meaningful to me, I still wanted to learn more about corporate social commitments. My thirst was quenched at an international conference I attended, where I learned a great deal about the idea of corporate social responsibilities (CSR). I found at the conference that now it is a widely shared sentiment that a company is naturally obliged to create as many jobs as possible and fulfill its social responsibilities in order to ensure its survival in the global market.
A personal acquaintance I developed at a social welfare foundation I attended once told me that if he were given a million won, he would multiply that money to ten million won, instead of giving it right away, in order to help a greater number of people or a greater cause. On my behalf, I would like to tell you what joyous and rewarding experiences I have had by making it part of my routine to share with my neighbors on a daily basis. It is indeed exciting to share love and hope with your needy neighbors.
HMC encourages its employees to take active part in voluntary services in helping the true spirit of Beautiful Store Organization.
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In 2005 and 2006, HMC employees participated in the Charity Bazaar (also known as WBC ("We start Beautiful Stores for Charities")) hosted by the Beautiful Store Organization.
