Seoul, South Korea – February 16 – Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, announced that it held a ceremony for charity donation its employees made by sharing changes (‘woosoori’ in Korean) of their monthly wages for the less privileged in the local community.

In the ceremony, about KRW 226 million Korean won that about 24,300 or 96% of total HHI employee made in 2015 was donated to the Korea Heart Foundation, the Korean Association of Children with Leukemia and Cancer and Community Chest of Ulsan today in the presence of the beneficiaries who went through congenital cardiac surgery with the help of the donation in the past.

The accumulated donation amount that has been raised through the charity campaign over the past six years reached more than KRW 1.34 billion Korean won used for treating 140 plus patients and their families suffering from cardiac disease, leukemia and childhood cancer.

Moreover, at the end of last year, HHI decided to extend “the Woosoori Donation Agreement” for two more years to 2017, and allocate the charity to the aforementioned three organizations by the share of 50%, 25% and 25% respectively.