On the 6th, KB Kookmin Bank signed a business agreement with the Changgyeonggung Palace Management Office and Seoul Green Trust to create the ‘KB Green Wave (KB Green Wave) Palace Forest’ at Changgyeonggung Palace.
The agreement ceremony held at Changgyeonggung Palace on this day was attended by Moon Hye-sook, head of ESG headquarters at KB Kookmin Bank, Park Young-hwan, director of Changgyeonggung Palace Management Office, and Cho Gyeong-jin, director of Seoul Green Trust and related officials.
With this business agreement, the palace forest, which will be created around Yulgok-ro in Changgyeonggung Palace, is a place where the need for green space restoration has increased as Yulgok-ro, which used to cross Changgyeonggung Palace and Jongmyo Shrine, has become underground. Accordingly, KB Kookmin Bank has established a plan to restore the palace forest in the Yulgok-ro area and promotes forest creation activities with customers until 2025.
In particular, this palace forest will be created with donations directly prepared through ESG practices by KB Kookmin Bank executives and employees. KB Kookmin Bank has been operating the ‘KB Green Wave Mileage’ since 2022, and the accumulated mileage is donated whenever ESG is practiced in everyday life, such as △reducing paper usage, △walking or using public transportation, and △participating in volunteer activities. It was delivered to Changgyeonggung in the form of
An official from KB Kookmin Bank said, “I am delighted that the ESG practices of KB Kookmin Bank employees are gathered and used for the meaningful work of creating a palace forest in Changgyeonggung Palace.”
Meanwhile, KB Kookmin Bank is carrying out various eco-friendly activities through the KB Green Wave Environmental Campaign. In particular, this year, the ‘Less Paper, Save Energy, No Plastic’ program, which has been in progress since 2020, is carrying out an eco-friendly campaign with a more expanded concept by adding the Care Myself activity to protect the health of the earth by participating in social contribution activities.
/ Fortune Korea Reporter Gong In-ho [email protected]
