Seventy children of firefighters who died while on duty received a total of 210 million won ($187,869) in scholarship funds from Korea’s third-largest oil refiner S-Oil to support their academic studies, the company said Wednesday.
This year the refiner delivered 3 million won ($2,711) to each recipient at the Yeongdeungpo Fire Station in Seoul, as part of its annual scholarship program for children of fallen firefighters.
S-Oil president Kim Dong-cheoul (center) poses with student recipients during the scholarship-delivering ceremony in Seoul on Wednesday. (S-Oil)
“It is fulfilling to see kids who were in elementary school when we began the program proceed to university and workplace,” said S-Oil president Kim Dong-cheoul.
Recipients receive the scholarship every year until they graduate university or college, the company‘s spokesperson explained.
According to S-Oil, it started the program in 2006 and has funded a combined total of some 3 billion won ($2.7 million) for 1,048 recipients up until this year.
By Kim Bo-gyung (
lisakim425@heraldcorp.com)