Beijing Winter Olympics short track gold medalists Daeheon Hwang and Minjeong Choi pose for a commemorative photo following receiving plaques and medals from Genesis BBQ Group Chairman Yoon Hong-geun at the ‘Chicken Pension Happiness Delivery Ceremony’ held at Lotte Hotel Seoul in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 21st. News 1
Minjeong Choi (Seongnam City Hall) and Daeheon Hwang (Gangwon Provincial Office), short track gold medalists at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, received a ‘Chicken Pension’ certificate that allows them to eat 30,000 won worth of chicken every day until the age of 60.
19 athletes, including two athletes, from the Beijing Olympics, received their pension certificates and smiled brightly at the Genesis BBQ Chicken Pension Happiness Delivery Ceremony held at the Lotte Hotel in Sogong-dong, Seoul on the 21st.
Hwang Dae-heon receives an amount equivalent to chicken pension as membership points every month or at the beginning of each quarter for 38 years and Choi Min-jung for 37 years.
Each of the two players will receive a total of regarding 400 million won in coupons. Genesis BBQ Group said, “We set the price of 30,000 won in consideration of the chicken selling price, inflation rate, and delivery cost.
Short track women’s national team that won silver medals: Lee Yoo-bin (Yonsei University), Kim A-rang (Goyang City Hall), Seo Hwi-min (Korea University), short track men’s short track men’s team Kwak Yun-ki (Goyang City Hall), Lee Jun-seo (Korea National University of Sports), Park Jang-hyuk (Sports Toto), Kim Dong-wook (Sports) Toto), speed skating Cha Min-kyu, and Jeong Jae-won (Uijeongbu City Hall) will receive chicken pension benefits twice a week for a total of 20 years.
Park Ji-yoon (Uijeongbu City Hall), who participated as a relay member of the short track women’s national team, but did not receive a medal because she might not compete in the main Olympic Games, also decided to give the same benefits as the silver medalist.
Bronze medalists Seung-Hoon Lee (IHQ) and Min-Seok Kim (Seongnam City Hall) of speed skating receive chicken pension twice a week for a total of 10 years.
Genesis BBQ Group also provides chicken coupons twice a week for 1 year to snowboarder Lee Chae-woon (Bongdam-jung), biathlon athlete Kim (Jeonbuk Athletic Association), luge Park Jin-yong (Gyeonggi Provincial Office), bobsleigh Won Yun-jong (Gangwon-do Office), and curling Kim Kyung-ae, who performed well at the Beijing Olympics. decided to do
Hwang Dae-heon, who won the gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, delivers a welcome speech at the Genesis BBQ Chicken Pension Happy Delivery Ceremony held at the Lotte Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 21st. yunhap news
‘Chicken Pension’ became a topic of discussion when Yoon Hong-geun, president of the Korea Skating Federation, presented it as a reward for winning a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Chairman Yoon Hong-geun, who is also the head of the Genesis BBQ Group, a domestic chicken franchise company, promised to provide free chicken for life to athletes who won gold medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, which he attended as a team leader.
At that time, the Korean short track team failed to win a medal in the men’s 1,000m semifinal due to an ambiguous decision.
Hwang Dae-heon won the gold medal in the men’s 1,500m short track the day following Chairman Yoon gave the award. Choi Min-jung won the gold medal in the women’s 1,500m around her neck.
Hwang Dae-heon said, “When I eat a lot, I like chicken enough to eat it up to 4 times a week.” He said, “I will work out hard by sharing chicken with my family and juniors.”
Choi Min-jung said, “I was very envious of the people around me when I heard that I was receiving a chicken pension.
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