Input 2021.02.25 19:14
Kim Beom-soo, chairman of the Kakao Board of Directors, took the first step toward returning assets by holding a meeting with Kakao on the 25th.
Earlier this month, Chairman Kim sent a message to all employees, announcing that he will donate more than half of his assets to solve social problems during his life. The value of Kakao shares held by Chairman Kim is estimated to exceed 10 trillion won and the donation will reach 5 to 6 trillion won. The seat was prepared by Chairman Kim, saying, “Let’s gather wisdom together.” With 5,600 employees attending from Kakao headquarters and major affiliates, the event lasted about 2 hours from 2pm to 4:20pm.
At the beginning of the meeting, Chairman Kim said, “I have a doctor who visits me when I have a hard time in my heart,” and said, “When you talk about troubles, what you must say is that’people are completely imperfect’.” “I think that such an imperfect human-made organization is completely imperfect,” he said.
“If there is democracy and dictatorship, of course, I prefer democracy, and among communism and capitalism, I prefer capitalism.” Because” he said. “It is because capitalism (the reason I prefer) is also strangely in contact with human desires, and that the flower of capitalism is the enterprise, the driving force behind something,” he said. “Capitalism also has numerous problems such as inequality. Complete incompleteness. I think I have a sense of responsibility to solve the problem.”
Chairman Kim said, “I don’t want to keep donations, but I want to write them where necessary.” Chairman Kim said, “I want to go to a structure that spends several hundred billion won by setting a unit for one year in one year,” he said.
Chairman Kim said, “I wanted to personally solve things that Kakao is difficult to access.” It is said that there is a limit to the approach at the corporate level such as profitability. “The way I’m pursuing is a project,” he said. “To solve the problem, we create priorities and strategically create what we are doing. If you want, I just want to do it.
At the conference on this day, there were also talks about the recent controversial bullying and personnel evaluation. Recently, in Kakao, an employee posted a suspicion of bullying in the workplace by posting a suspicion on the worker community’blind’. This article was immediately deleted by the author, but with this incident, a dissatisfaction about Kakao’s personnel evaluation was also followed up and controversy spread. At Kakao, employees respond to co-workers, asking,’Do you want to work with this person?’, and the results are known to the person concerned, giving pressure and stress.
Chairman Kim said, “In Kakao, there should never be an act of ignoring or harassing anyone.” “I believe that Kakao is a company that has the mind and will to recognize and solve problems. I think this issue is a warning light in the company culture.” Said.
Chairman Kim said, “We are completely imperfect, but the company’s culture is revealed in how we react and apologize when we make a mistake.” “I want the Kakao community to become a healthy organization. Healthy means recovery resilience,” he said. “There may be bumps and bumps, but it is important to recover well after that. did.