{"id":851,"date":"2020-02-17T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T07:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/?p=851"},"modified":"2024-01-24T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T04:49:24","slug":"sk-innovations-way-pursuing-global-mutual-growth-with-local-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/851","title":{"rendered":"SK Innovation\u2019s way: Pursuing global, mutual growth with local communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2080\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/200212_\ud5dd\uac00\ub9ac\uae30\ubd80\uae08\uc804\ub2ec\uc2dd_\uba54\uc778_\ucd5c\uc885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">On February 10, SK Innovation visited Kom\u00e1rom, Hungary, where the European production base for electric vehicle battery is located, and delivered a donation to the public interest foundations of the city. Jee Dong-seob, President of SK Innovation\u2019s Battery Business, members of SK battery hungary, Mayor Attila Moln\u00e1r of Kom\u00e1rom, and other representatives of public interest foundations participated in the donation ceremony held in the Kom\u00e1rom City Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">Mayor Moln\u00e1r happily welcomed the SK Innovation delegation as he did a year ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68180\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200212_\ud5dd\uac00\ub9ac\uae30\ubd80\uae08\uc804\ub2ec\uc2dd_\uc774\ubbf8\uc9c01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">\u25b2 Jee Dong-seob, President of SK Innovation\u2019s Battery Business (left in the photos), and Mayor Attila Moln\u00e1r of Kom\u00e1rom (right in the photos)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">In January 2019, SK Innovation promised to donate HUF 15 million (about $48,000) for 2 years to three public interest foundations in Kom\u00e1rom, which is welcome news for Kom\u00e1rom whose population stands at 20,000. As this is the last year for the company to deliver its promise, President Jee and other members who visited the battery production plant of SK Innovation decided to take the time to visit the City Hall before leaving the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">SK Innovation\u2019s donation will be used to improve different services for the local society, including developing the medical machines of Kom\u00e1rom Machinery-Instrument Health Foundation, supporting the scholarship project of Kom\u00e1rom Social Public Foundation, and supplementing the firefighting equipment of Kom\u00e1rom Public Foundation for Fire Protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68182\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200212_\ud5dd\uac00\ub9ac\uae30\ubd80\uae08\uc804\ub2ec\uc2dd_\uc774\ubbf8\uc9c03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"541\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">\u201cI am grateful to SK Innovation for having selected Kom\u00e1rom as the region to invest in. The company is helping the development of Kom\u00e1rom\u2019s local society in diverse ways,\u201d said Mayor Moln\u00e1r thanking and cheering SK Innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68256\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200212_\ud5dd\uac00\ub9ac\uae30\ubd80\uae08\uc804\ub2ec\uc2dd_\uc778\ud130\ubdf0\uc544\ud2f8\ub77c-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">\u201cThe battery plant in Hungary started operating in October last year. We were able to speedily and smoothly complete the construction and start mass-producing, thanks to the active support of the municipal government of Kom\u00e1rom,\u201d said President Jee. He then introduced SK Group\u2019s business philosophy of pursuing happiness with the company\u2019s stakeholders and explained its measures for creating social value to achieve win-win growth with the local society of Kom\u00e1rom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6195\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/200212_\ud5dd\uac00\ub9ac\uae30\ubd80\uae08\uc804\ub2ec\uc2dd_\uc778\ud130\ubdf0\uc9c0\ub3d9\uc12d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">This way of communicating with local societies around the world of SK Innovation is not limited to Kom\u00e1rom. In Houston, an outpost of the shale revolution where the company\u2019s headquarters of its Exploration &amp; Production (E&amp;P) business is located, SK Innovation is actively engaged in happiness sharing activities. They include volunteering at the local Foodbank and supporting the scholarship business of Rice University. As a result, professors and students of the university are visiting the headquarters and Ulsan workplace of SK Innovation and expressing gratitude. The company exerts continuous efforts to expand exchanges with people in the local community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">In Vietnam, where the company\u2019s workplace for Southeast Asia is located, it is continuously engaging in a mangrove planting project and operating a social enterprise, among others, to grow together with the local society. In Freeport, Texas, the United States, where SK Primacor Americas (the subsidiary of SK Innovation) is located as a company producing high value\u00ac\u2013added chemical products in the Americas, the company participated in an activity donating to the Fire &amp; Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Department. The mayor of Freeport then unprecedently expressed gratitude on his personal SNS, creating a buzz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68181\" src=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/200212_\ud5dd\uac00\ub9ac\uae30\ubd80\uae08\uc804\ub2ec\uc2dd_\uc774\ubbf8\uc9c02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1180\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">\u25b2 (Left) Students of Rice University who visited Ulsan CLX of SK in June 2019 (Right) \u201cI Green We Green Vietnam\u201d held at the Xuan Thuy National Park in Xuan Truong, Nam Dinh, Vietnam, in October 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">These global donation activities of SK Innovation are in line with the double bottom line (DBL) business philosophy of SK Group to pursue economic and social values together with local societies. The company is sharing happiness with the local societies where its overseas workplaces are located to raise its social value. SK Innovation successfully executes business in the local societies where its global workplaces are located, thus contributing to the local economy and national development, as well as creating social value by solving various social problems for win-win growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On February 10, SK Innovation visited Kom\u00e1rom, Hungary, where the European production base for electric vehicle battery is located, and delivered a donation to the public interest foundations of the city. 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