LG Innotek (Represented by Hur Young-ho), held a course completion ceremony for the “Hope Mentoring Class,” a program for supporting children from multicultural families, at the Korean Folk Village in Yongin on November 13, 2011.

The second ceremony held this year was participated in by a total of about 100 people including 60 multicultural children and family members, and 21 coaches and mentors from LG.

On the day of the ceremony, LG Innotek awarded scholarships and gift cards to all of the multicultural children who completed the Hope Mentoring Class. In addition, the Ceremony provided a present exchanging event where all the mentors and mentees made and gave t-shirts to each other.

From November 12 – 13, prior to the Ceremony, LG Innotek provided a Hope Mentoring Camp at the Korean Folk Village.LG Innotek provided the camp, together with the course completion ceremony, in order look back what they have done during this year and to improve the participants’ understanding about Korean culture.

At the Hope Mentoring Camp, the 100 participants had opportunities to experience Korean traditional culture and understand more about a variety of other cultures. In particular, they had time for a mentor and mentee group, shared joys and sorrows, and exchanged heartfelt food, in a program entitled “Multicultural Food Making,” emceed by a Korean traditional culture specialist, Lee Hyo-Jae.

LG Innotek’s Hope Mentoring program was launched last year as an employee-participating, societal contribution activity to help children from multicultural families. Hope Mentoring is a mental support program that goes beyond a simple material assistance. It provides multicultural children with opportunities to experience and understand the difference and diversity between the different cultures of their parents, eventually helping them grow up healthily in Korean society.

“Hope Mentoring 2011”, held the second time this year was six months long, starting in May, and participated in by 21 multicultural children who served as mentees selected by 7 operations in Korea, and coaching staffs and mentoring staff members.

The mentors and mentees could build a sense of intimacy through twice-a-month coaching and mentoring activities and while participating in cultural and historical site visiting activities. And the seven staff members, who completed a special coaching course, played a role in helping the multicultural children develop their potential abilities and achieve self-realization.

“The children from multicultural families may desperately need an environment that allows them to share their minds with Korean people and to experience different aspects of Korean society,” said Yeo Sangsam, the program’s executive director, who also participated in the last year’s program. “I feel really great about having an opportunity to participate in this Hope Mentoring program, which upholds such needs,” he added.

LG Innotek will continue its tangible support for children from multicultural families to help them develop and grow up as legitimate, essential members of Korean society.