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The POSCO TJ Park Foundation selected five people as ‘POSCO Heroes’.

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- Jeong Gu-kwan, Kim Yu-jin, who defended the neighbors by subduing the armed rough

- Kim Jae-won, who jumped into a burning building to evacuate residents and prevent casualties

- Senior Firefighter Kang Tae-woo, who jumped into the sea to rescue drowning people, and Senior Firefighter Kim Ji-min, who saved lives with CPR 

- Awarded plaque and scholarship on the 29th, and a total of 62 POSCO Heroes have been selected so far.

 

The POSCO TJ Park Foundation(Chairman Kim Sun-wook) selected as heroes Jeong Gu-gwan (41) and Kim Yu-jin (43), who protected their neighbors by suppressing an armed rough, Kim Jae-won (41), who jumped into a burning building to evacuate residents and saved people, and Kang Tae-woo (29, Senior Firefighter) and Kim Ji-min (29, Senior Firefighter), who rescued a person from drowning by drowning in the sea. And awarded the plaques and scholarships on July 29, 2022.

 

Jeong Gu-gwan and Kim Yu-jin jumped into the scene of a stabbing rampage that took place in the hallway of an apartment on July 16, 2022, subdued the rough and rescued the victim. At around 10 p.m. that night, Mr. Jeong ran out of the house at the sound of screams from the hallway of the apartment building, and found a man wielding a weapon and threatening a woman. Mr. Jeong rushed to the gangster without delay and subdue him, but the rough picked up the broken blade and rushed at the woman again. After chasing and subduing the rough again, Mr. Jeong asked for help from those around him. At that time, Ms. Kim from the neighbor's house, who heard the noise, joined in and took the knife from the rough's hand, reported it to the police and handed over the rough to the police. Then the victim was taken to the hospital in a state of unconsciousness, but is now reported to have regained consciousness.

Jeong said, “I was afraid only after I handed the criminal over to the police. I still can't realize how I subdued the rough", "At that time, I think my body moved first with the thought of saving the victim. I am very happy to hear that the victim is recovering.”.

 

Kim Jae-won, who was also selected as the POSCO Heroes, evacuated all residents of the burning building on June 5, 2022 to prevent casualties. On the evening of the same day, at around 8 pm, Mr. Kim, who was working at a chicken restaurant he ran near Sangnok-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, went out to look around the acrid smell, and after found smoke rising from a store on the first floor of the building next door, immediately called 119. At that time, people in the store on the first floor evacuated quickly outside the building, but the residents living on the second and third floors and the rooftop were unaware of the fire. In response, Mr. Kim broke through the locked front door of the burning building, entered each house, and rang the doorbell to inform the fire situation and evacuated. While the residents were evacuating, smoke quickly spread upstairs, and the store on the first floor was burned down.

Mr. Kim said, “When I saw the house on fire, I just thought that I had to inform the fire and evacuate the residents.”, “I am very happy to receive a scholarship for my children during a very difficult time due to COVID-19. In the future, I will look after my neighbors in need and live my life.”.

 

 Kang Tae-woo and Kim Ji-min, the senior firefighters' couple, saved the life of a drowning person by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation together. On June 18 2022, Mr. Kang and Ms. Kim were walking along the beach at Waemok Village Beach in Dangjin, Chungcheongnam-do, when they heard an urgent sound that a person had fallen into the sea. When they looked towards the sea, they could only see an inflatable float in the distance, and Mr. Kang decided that it was an urgent situation and immediately jumped into the sea. He swam about 20 meters and rescued the woman from drowning to the beach, but she was in critical condition, unconscious and not breathing. At this time, Ms. Kim, a 119 paramedic belonging to the Dangjin Fire Department, quickly performed CPR, and after a while, the drowning person breathed and regained consciousness.

Ms. Kim was in a full-term condition with only a few days left to give birth, and her health was so poor that she had to take sick leave and rest recently, but she took the risk and saved a life. They said, “We were just doing what was natural, and I was hesitant at first whether I could receive the big prize of POSCO Heroes, but I will be glad to receive it as it is a scholarship for a child to be born soon.”, “We will work harder for the safety of the people.”

 

The POSCO Heroes Fellowship is a project to support righteous people or children of righteous people who sacrificed themselves for national and social justice so that they can continue their studies in a stable manner, and established in 2019, a total of 62 POSCO Heroes have been selected. The POSCO TJ Park Foundation plans to actively discover public officials and citizens who serve as social models to raise social interest in righteous behavior and to take the lead in creating a just society where people can help each other in difficult situations.