From left, Seo Sang-mok, chairman of the Korea Social Welfare Association, Joo Jin-bok, chief of the Chuncheon Fire Station, Gangwon-do, Ryu Yeol, president of S-Oil, Kim Yong-won, the chief firefighter of the Chuncheon Fire Department in Gangwon, and Lee Heung-gyo, chief of the Fire Department.
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Kim Yong-won Fire Department (Chuncheon Fire Station, Gangwon-do) was selected as S-Oil’s ‘Best Hero Firefighter’ this year.
S-OIL (CEO Hussein Al-Qahtani) held the ‘Fire Fighting Hero Awards Ceremony’ at the headquarters in Gongdeok-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul on the 19th with the Korea Social Welfare Council (Chairman Sang-mok Seo), and awarded plaques and prize money of 90 million won to eight heroic firefighters. S-OIL has been supporting firefighters through the Fire Fighting Heroes Campaign since 2006.
S-OIL selects heroic firefighters through a judging committee made up of firefighting experts after being recommended by the Fire Department.
In October of last year, Kim Yong-won, a firefighter in the city of Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, was helping an elderly woman working in the fields while a large trailer rushed into the field and overturned. Earlier, in February of last year, when a gas station in Onui-dong, Chuncheon-si was demolished, a large fire was prevented by extinguishing the fire at the initial stage.
In addition, a total of seven firefighters who demonstrated the spirit of sacrifice at the scene of various fires and disasters were selected as ‘Hero Firefighters of 2021’. Fire Department Kim Hak-jin (Ulsan Fire Department), Jang Young-mi (Gwangju Southern Fire Department), Yang Jin-tae (Gyeonggi Uijeongbu Fire Department), Ryu Dong-ik Fire Department (Dunsan Fire Station, Daejeon), Fire Chief Lee Dong-gyu (Chungnam Asan Fire Station), Kim Byeong-wook (Seoul Jongno Fire Station), Park Byeong-ju Fire Department (Jeonnam Suncheon Fire Station), etc.
S-Oil President Ryu Yeol said, “S-Oil is proud of the firefighters’ activities to repay the gratitude of the firefighters, and we will continue to support them in the future.”
The awards ceremony was held with only the best firefighters in attendance to prevent the spread of COVID-19. S-OIL has sponsored about 3,000 firefighters over the past 17 years.
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