Sharing Preserved in Notebooks and Family Photos: Hope Friend Hunger Countermeasures to Hold Legacy Giving Exhibition

[Financial News] Notebooks, photographs and letters kept by legacy-giving supporters will go on display. The exhibition offers a chance to look back on the lives of people who chose to share through records of their everyday lives.
Hope Friend Hunger Countermeasures, an international relief and development NGO, said on the 16th that its legacy giving exhibition “A Life to Be Remembered with Love” would run from that day through October 11 on the sixth floor of Insa Art Center in Jongno District, Seoul.
The exhibition features 35 items in total. They include a notebook containing the late Seol Sun-hee’s final prayer, a 1994 black-and-white photograph of Park Yeon-hyang’s first sponsored child, and a five-generation family photograph belonging to Lim Ja-young.
Legacy giving is an arrangement made during one’s lifetime to donate some or all of one’s assets after death. Through the donors’ personal collections, the exhibition introduces their lives and the reasons they chose to give.
During the exhibition, docent programs explaining the supporters’ lives and personal collections will be offered, along with an interactive program where visitors can leave their own stories. On the 22nd, Lee Ho-seon, a professor at Soongsil Cyber University, will deliver a special lecture titled “A True Legacy for the Next Generation.”
The exhibition is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on both weekdays and weekends, and admission is free. Applications can be made through the Hope Friend Hunger Countermeasures website.
Hope Friend Hunger Countermeasures’ legacy donors’ group, Heritage Club, was launched in 2015. People who have donated or pledged their legacies participate in various forms, including real estate, cash and insurance.
Choi Chang-nam, chairman of Hope Friend Hunger Countermeasures, said, "Legacy giving is another way for a person to pass on the values and love they have upheld throughout their lives to the next generation." He added that he hoped the exhibition would give visitors an opportunity to reflect on how they want to be remembered and what they want to leave behind.
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