▲ Kim Bong-jin and Seol Bo-mi, a couple registered for'The Giving Pledge'
Kim Bong-jin (45), the founder of the nation's No. 1 delivery app,'Baedal People', (45), chairman of the elegant brothers, returns more than half of his wealth to society.
Elegant brothers today (18 days) Kim worldwide donate club, "The Giving player support (The Giving Pledge 'I said dwaetdago registered as the 219th donor.
More Giving play that Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft founder couple Is a charitable organization founded together in 2010. You
must have assets of over $1 billion (KRW 1 trillion) to be eligible for membership and donate more than half of your assets.
Chairman Kim is the 219th donor of The Giving Pledge and Koreans the first subscriber.
among Asian countries, is the seventh followed in China and India.
currently the charity has 24 stations, 218 people (couples, families, such as co people are counted as one) are involved.
members in the Face North founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, film Star Wars director George Lucas, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, etc.
About 75% of 219 members start empty-handed and call
themselves
a self-made man the billionaires.
property of Kim's when you include DH stock value received and sold the peoples of delivery in Germany delivery Hero (DH) known to be up to 1 trillion won is more than half of you will donate more than 500 billion won.
The Giving Pledge released a pledge in both English and Korean along with a photo of Chairman Kim Bong-jin on its website.
In his pledge, Chairman Kim said, "I and my wife give back more than half of their wealth to society until they die."
Instead of saying, "When I was in high school, I wasn't able to sleep in the dining room where guests used to sleep, so it was difficult to explain what I achieved by going to art college only because I was lucky and blessed by God." I did.
Chairman Kim graduated from Sudo Electric High School and Seoul Arts University, Department of Interior Design, and went to design groups Emotion, Neowiz, and Naver, where he founded elegant brothers in 2010.
Chairman Kim added, "I think that the promise of 10 billion won donation in 2017 and keeping it was the best decision in life so far, and now I am trying to make a bigger return."
Chairman Kim has donated over 10 billion won until recently, including 7.1 billion won to the Fruit of Love.
The donation of Fruit of Love is the highest of all personal donations.
The donations are used for medical expenses and living expenses for delivery workers (riders) who are injured during food delivery.
Chairman Kim explained that the donations are being used step by step to create an organization that will help solve the problem of educational inequality, support cultural arts, and help charities do their job better.
Recently, Kakao founder Kim Beom-soo (55), chairman of the board of directors, announced that he would donate more than half of his wealth to resolve social problems.
His fortune is expected to exceed 10 trillion won in stock valuation alone, and the total contribution amount will be over 5 trillion won.
(Photo = Courtesy of Elegant Brothers, Yonhap News)