On June 25 Sujin (alias; aged 8) from Osan, Gyeonggi Province was very excited because she was about to participate in LG Innotek’s Green Energy Camp. As she and her family made their way to Neureup Village in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province, the venue of the camp, the heavy rain let up temporarily, and Sujin became all the more excited.
As soon as the family arrived in Hwacheon, Sujin named her own tree and made name tags together with other friends at the camp. Together they decided to call their friends by tree names such as “Vine Tree, “Syringa dilatata Tree” and “Cinnamon Tree” rather than by their own names, and spent the two days by feeling the part of trees.
The Green Energy Camp, to which Sujin was invited along with friends of her own age and their parents for a two-day stay, was organized by LG Innotek and the Forest Community.
The children participating in the camp pedaled electricity-generating bicycles alongside their friends in order to watch a movie, thereby experiencing and learning how important the energy they use freely every day really is. They also had an opportunity to learn about renewable energy by making traditional soil houses and eco T-shirts.
LG Innotek has been running the Green Energy Camp to enable children and parents from multicultural families to learn about and practically experience the importance of nature and energy since last year. The company plans to run six Green Energy Camp events this year in Hwacheon in Gangwon Province, and in Muju in Jeollabuk-do, which will bring together more than 250 people.
The camp will comprise programs designed to enable the participants to better understand forestry and nature, as well as the preciousness of energy, while also learning about multicultural society and Korean culture.
LG Innotek selected “Support for multicultural families and eco friendliness” as the theme for its corporate social responsibility campaigns last year. To put its ideas into practice, LG Innotek is proactively operating the Green Energy Camp, and the Hope Mentoring program, in which company executives and staff members volunteer to serve as mentors for children from multicultural families.
