POSCO TJ Park Foundation (Chairman Sunuk Kim) selected 7 medical staff, including nurses and volunteers, who have devoted themselves to preventing the spread of COVID 19 in the local community with a strong sense of mission and a spirit of sacrifice, as POSCO Heroes, and delivered plaques and scholarships to them.     7 POSCO Heroes struggling at the forefront to end COVID 19 early with dedication and service in an unprecedented national crisis include: △Hyesil Kim (Head nurse at Gunsan Medical Center), △ Sunuk Kang (Head nurse at Bundang CHA Hospital), △ Hee Park (Head nurse at Incheon City Medical Center) △ Eunhee Bae (Head nurse at Kyungpook National University Hospital), △Hyangran Lee (Head of Infection Control Team at Jeju National University Hospital), △Minjung Chu (Nurse  at Sangju Red Cross Hospital), and △Jungrok Yoo (Volunteer), and they were selected with the recommendation of the Korean Nurses Association. .   Hyesil Kim, the head nurse at Gunsan Medical Center with 26 years of service to the same hospital, has been working in the COVID 19 ward since Feb this year, making a great contribution to establishing the in-hospital infection prevention infrastructure and initiating cooperation from other medical institutions. In particular, she has become a model for others by demonstrating her professional capability for ensuring the psychological and emotional stability of patients who have been hospitalized for a long time after being diagnosed with COVID 19.   Sunuk Kang, head nurse of the Bundang CHA Hospital, has contributed to the recovery of infected patients by struggling at the forefront from screening of COVID-19 patients to nursing for severely ill patients. In particular, she was recognized for her contribution to preventing the spread of COVID 19 in the hospital through meticulous management of intensive care units and self-inspection while striving for infection prevention education for nurses and department members in charge of severely ill patients.   Hee Park is a veteran nurse with 25 years of working experience at the Incheon Metropolitan City Medical Center. Working in the treatment ward for the patients confirmed with COVID 19 from Feb this year, she has a leading role in dispatching medical staff to the “Mobile Van COVID-19 Screening Clinics” to prevent group infections of the vulnerable, becoming a model for others.   Eunhee Bae, head nurse of Kyungpook National University Hospital, has been in charge of treating severely ill patients in an urgent situation where thousands of patients with confirmed COVID 19 were pouring out in Daegu in the first half of this year. She was recognized for her leading role in initiating organic cooperation with the medical staff from other institutions and departments to provide appropriate treatment to patients in a situation where nursing staff and beds were extremely scarce.   In charge of managing COVID 19 as a team leader in the infection control department of Jeju National University Hospital, the only COVID 19 base hospital in Jeju, Hyangran Lee has been striving for a preemptive response. In particular, she has devoted herself to protecting the Jeju Island from COVID 19 by operating an 24-hour emergency countermeasure team in the hospital, playing a leading role in securing of beds for the patients with confirmed COVID 19 and managing discharged patients and self-quarantined patients in cooperation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Jeju Island to prevent Jeju Island from COVID 19.   Having applied herself to work at the COIVD 19 Quarantine Ward in Mar~Apr this year, when COIVD 19 spread rapidly in the Gyeongbuk area, Minjung Chu, a nurse at Sangju Red Cross Hospital, devoted herself to nursing 255 patients with confirmed COVID 19 while being thoroughly isolated from her children for two months. In particular, in a situation where there is a shortage of nursing personnel in the hospital, she took the initiative in cleaning toilets, serving meals, and disposing of medical waste, becoming a model for many medical professionals.   Volunteer Jungrok Yoo, who has been working as a nurse since 2011, was diagnosed with early-stage gastric cancer and was in medical care. In the first half of this year, with the increased number of the patients with confirmed COIVD 19 in Gyeongbuk, Gyeongbuk suffered from a shortage of nurses. She applied as a volunteer despite the risk of infection, which impressed many people. She showed her sacrifice and dedication by participating in the care of patients with confirmed COIVD 19 for two weeks at Daenam Hospital in Cheongdo, and then volunteering for six months at a screening clinic for foreigners in Busan City.   “Thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of the nurses, our country has been able to preemptively prevent the spread of infection, and to protect the lives and safety of the people in this difficult and tiring fight,” Sunuk Kim, Chairman of POSCO TJ Park Foundation Sunuk Kim, said. “We sincerely thank the nurses for their strong sense of mission and responsibility now that we are more desperate for cooperation, consideration and respect than ever before.”   POSCO Heroes Fellowship is a project intended to support the righteous who sacrificed themselves for the sake of national and social justice or their children to continue learning. Established in 2019 to create a just society where members of our society can help each other even in difficult situations by actively discovering public officials and ordinary citizens who become social models, POSCO Heroes Fellowship has selected a total of 25 POSCO Heroes.