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Chairman Kim Bong-jin, who founded the food delivery app’Nation of Delivery’, said he would give back more than half of his fortune to society.
This made it the first Korean to be named to a world-class donation club led by the Bill Gates and the couple.
First, reporter Park Jong-wook.
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This is The Giving Pledge, a global donation campaign meeting.
This morning, a Korean donation declaration was posted on the website.
This is Bongjin Kim and his wife, Bomi Seol, who founded the People of Delivery.
The Giving Pledge is a world-class donation club founded in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla founder Elon Musk, and 218 people from 25 countries around the world were named.
There are conditions to join this club.
Your assets must be over $1 billion, and you must promise to donate more than half of that.
This is the first Koreans to join Kim Bong-jin.
Chairman Kim Bong-jin said in the donation declaration, “I will give back more than half of my assets to society until I die.”
“My children also agreed with this decision,” he wrote, and “this declaration of donation will be the best legacy for our children.”
Chairman Kim Bong-jin established a nation of delivery in 2010 with a capital of 30 million won.
After raising it as the number one delivery app in Korea, it sold its stake to Delivery Hero in Germany for 4,700 billion won two years ago.
Meanwhile, the stock value has risen, and Kim Bong-jin’s fortune is now over 1 trillion won.
If you donate half of your fortune, the value alone is over 500 billion won.
He also donated 10 billion won in 2017.
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“I’m the one who started out with an announcement and went to college and did a credit bank. I decided to do that because I thought that if I lost my gratitude for the world, I would be unhappy no matter what I gain.”
Mr. Kim said that he would like to spread the donation culture through this work.
This is Jongwook Park of MBC News.
(Video coverage: Kang Jae-hoon / Video editing: Lee Jung-geun / Video source: Global Talent Forum)
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