Beomsu Kim “Half Property”… ‘Korean version of Bill Gates’?
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Chairman of the Kakao Board of Directors Kim Beom-soo said he would donate half of his property.
The amount is about 5 trillion won.
It seems that the so-called soil spoon was self-made to give back to society.
Can I be a model for the Korean version of Bill Gates as I said I would use it to solve social problems?
This is a material reporter.
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Kakao Chairman of the Board of Directors Kim Beom-soo, who gave up stocks to overcome Corona 19 last year, and also donated stocks to recover from the torrential rain.
The amount donated so far is 7.2 billion won, and about 90,000 stocks are over.
This time, they announced that they would donate more than half of their wealth to solve social problems.
In his New Year’s message to Kakao executives and employees, Chairman Kim said, “I will donate more than half of my assets to solve social problems, seeing that social problems are deepening in various fields.”
It seems that sooner or later, we will make a donation pledge, and the method of donation will be decided based on opinions of internal members.
“I think that if a company has good will, it can be approached to make a better world. In that sense, I would like to find a way to take an interest in social issues and actively solve them.”
In Korea, Chairman Kim is known as a stock-rich after Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Hyundai Motor Group Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-koo.
The current stock value is about 10 trillion won, and it is estimated that about 5 trillion won will be spent on donations by half.
In particular, it is noteworthy whether it will make a similar move to the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates in the United States, who has donated more than 40 trillion won for 15 years in that they will start large and small experiments through donations.
“The donation will be linked to Kakao’s business model, and it will create a financial story for the company. Investors will certainly see the company in different ways.”
Meanwhile, it was controversial when it became known that the company donated 140 billion units of wealth to relatives, and that children were working in the company he owned, but the announcement of this donation has eased the burden.
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