Social Contribution Activities

KT is promoting social contributions in the areas of people, society and culture to make a better future with connection and diffusion. We are connecting people to people, home to home, land to island, and urban to rural, and also spreading knowledge to where it is most needed and culture to where the benefits are lacking.

• Better People

  Better People

  KT is deploying IT based social contribution activities such as IT Supporters and Dream School to make the world a place where anyone can get equal opportunity and dream a new dream and promoting employee volunteer corps and a variety of scholarship.

  • IT Supporters

    

    IT Supporters, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year, is Korea’s first pro bono activity. All current and former KT employees, using their talents through IT Supporters, are providing information-vulnerable social groups with nationwide IT education to narrow the information gap.

  • Dream School

    

    Dream School and its mentors (retirees and foreign students), using the interactive ICT mentoring platform built with KT video conference system in 2013, takes the lead in mentoring children and youth from vulnerable social groups and narrowing the educational gap.

  • Scholarship

    

    KT started its scholarship program in 1988 and has implemented a variety of programs such as 'Creative Innovative Leader Scholarship' and 'Labor-Management Youth Scholarship'. Since 2014, the company has not just been awarding scholarships but also providing mentoring to youth through Dream School.

  • Love Volunteers

    

    ‘Love Volunteers,’ a KT employees volunteer group headed by the CEO, is promoting various voluntary services such as supporting the community’s child center, helping the underprivileged of the community, supporting disaster recovery, offering helping hands to farming and fishing villages, checking community centers and giving experience education through KT facilities.

• Better Society

  Better Society

  KT is resolving the imbalance from local gap through GIGA Story, Dongja Hope Sharing Center and Ggoompoom Center, helping anyone enjoy IT benefits.

  • GiGA Story Project

    

    GIGA Story, which is a representative social contribution program promoted through KT’s creative and innovative ideas, will provide GIGA infrastructure and customized solution to islands and highlands experiencing a significant digital divide and improve the life of local people in terms of education, culture, economy and environment.

  • Dongja Hope Sharing Center

    

    Dongja Hope Sharing Center is a ICT cultural complex KT established in Dongja-dong, Yongsan-gu, a representative flophouse area in Seoul, in 2014. Since its opening, the center has become a place where local people solve basic living inconveniences and relax, which has provided positive changes to the community.

  • KT Ggoompoom Center

    

    The company has run KT Ggoompoom Centers using unused space in the 21 branch buildings nationwide since 2010. KT Ggoompoom Centers are equipped with IPTVs, beam projectors and other IT devices to provide children of vulnerable social groups with education in English, music, culture and art.

  • Universal Service

    

    Universal Service means a basic telecom service at the right price provided for every user anytime and anywhere. KT provides basic telecom services such as local call, public phone, island communication and marine radio to fulfill responsibilities as a national company.

• Better Life

  Better Life

  KT contributes to spreading the ‘Voice’ around the world as a telecom service provider which delivers voice with radio waves. To do that, the company is running KT Chamberhall and KT Square, to help narrow the cultural gap and use the ticket proceeds in ‘KT Voice Back.’

  • KT Chamberhall

    

    KT Chamberhall is a classical theater opened in 2009 for the purpose of spreading beautiful ‘voice’ to the public. All performance proceeds are used for the social contribution program, ‘KT Voice Back,’ to help cure hearing-impaired children.

  • KT Square

    

    KT Square, an IT cultural complex opened on the first floor of KT’s Gwanghwamun building in May 2010, gives people the opportunity to experience KT’s latest IT devices and services for free and provides culture/rest space such as cafe, Dream Hall performance, telecom museum and 5G technology exhibition.

  • Getting voice back to the hearing-impaired

    

    Since 2003, KT, considering the characteristics of a telecom business, has deployed ‘KT Voice Back’ to get the voice back to the hearing-impaired children of low-income groups who have difficulties in communicating. The program largely separates treatment support, rehabilitation support and family support.