OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2014. POSCO attended the Korean Sharing Festival 2014 held on October 11th and 12th. During the event, it ran a corporate booth, introducing POSCO`s systematic sharing culture to visitors.

In this event, POSCO introduced its five CSR areas and the activities of the POSCO 1% Sharing Foundation launched in November of 2013. It also introduced its Green Walk campaign in which POSCO members reduce GHG emissions by actively practicing Four Green Activities of `Walk`, `Turn Off`, `Collect` and `Reduce` in their daily lives, and donate the mileage obtained from the activities.

Furthermore, POSCO also presented the `Bicycle Cotton Candy` corner as part of its carbon neutral program in which visitors could experience the pleasure of sharing. The audience showed a highly favorable response to various experiential programs POSCO presented in the event, including the instant photo-taking corner and the stainless steel wish tree corner in which visitors hung a `make-a-wish` note on the tree.

On the opening day, October 11th, Prime Minister Jung Hong-won visited the POSCO booth, and POSCO VP Lee Young-hoon briefed him on POSCO`s CSR activities. PM Jung even wrote the message ``Best wishes to POSCO engaging in the sharing culture campaign,`` and hung it on the `make-a-wish` tree.

He also participated in the `Make a Hopeful Dream Gift Box` program to make boxes containing books and clothes with a hope message for socially neglected neighbors.

``Recently, sharing culture is being spotlighted in our society. POSCO will strive to get closer to the people with our differentiated sharing activities by actively implementing our CSR vision, `For a better world`,`` said POSCO Vice-President Lee Young-hoon.

The 5th Korean Sharing Festival, co-hosted by the National HQ of Sharing Korea and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, was held in nine major cities at the same time: Seoul, Gwangju, Daeju, Busan, Suwon, Ulsan, Incheon and Jeju.