110,000 Samsung employees join ‘Sharing Week’ ... 300 million won raised through everyday donations

[Financial News] About 108,000 Samsung employees took part in donations, blood drives and volunteer activities through ‘Sharing Week.’ Donations raised through ‘Sharing Stores,’ which involve labor and management and local businesses, were also delivered to organizations that support children and teenagers from vulnerable groups.
On the 12th, Samsung held the ‘2026 Day of Sharing’ event at DSR Tower on Samsung Electronics’ Hwaseong campus in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, and shared the results of Sharing Week, which began on the 2nd. Employees from 23 domestic affiliates took part in this year’s activities.
The event featured the first donation handover ceremony for the ‘Sharing Stores’ program. When employees visit designated restaurants or cafes near their workplace, those businesses donate a portion of their sales. The program channels employees’ spending into revitalizing local commercial districts and supporting vulnerable groups. Currently, 22 worksites operated by 17 affiliates, including Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Display and Samsung SDI, and 370 local businesses in Suwon, Hwaseong, Gwangju, Gumi and Pyeongtaek are participating.
Park Yong-in, president and head of Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Business, Choi Seung-ho, chair of the Samsung Electronics Branch of the Super-Enterprise Union, and participating business owners took part in the handover ceremony. The donations will be used to support children and teenagers from vulnerable groups through Save the Children, Good Neighbors and ChildFund Korea.
During Sharing Week, employees raised 300 million won through a special campaign using Sharing Kiosks to help 20 children. The kiosks are a platform that donates 1,000 won each time an employee taps their ID badge. A total of 156 kiosks are in operation: 113 in Korea and 43 overseas.
Employees also took part in blood drives and community service. Samsung has run blood donation campaigns since 1996, with about 450,000 cumulative participants over the past 30 years. In 2022, it began donating bloodmobiles funded with about 10 billion won raised through executives’ donations of part of their special incentive payments. Twenty buses have been donated through this year, and Samsung plans to donate 40 in total.
Executives and the union also joined volunteer activities. On the 3rd, executives including Jun Young-hyun, vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions (DS) Division, and the Samsung Electronics Branch of the Super-Enterprise Union took part in a cookie-making volunteer activity at Huimangbyeolsup, a standard workplace for people with disabilities in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi Province. On the 7th, Roh Tae-moon, president and CEO of the finished products (DX) Division, made lunch boxes with employees for seniors living alone at the Gwanggyo Senior Welfare Center in Suwon.
Samsung Electronics presented the CSR Awards that day to employees who actively participated in donations, blood drives and other activities. Among those selected for awards was Kim Ji-ho of the Semiconductor Research Institute, who had donated blood 100 times.
Samsung is also running its donation pledge campaign for next year through the end of this month. Employees choose the program and amount they wish to support, and donations are deducted from their monthly pay; the company contributes an equal amount. As of this month, about 156,000 people have joined the pledge campaign.
Park Yong-in said, “We expect Sharing Stores, which foster mutual growth with local communities, to become another successful CSR model that spreads a culture of mutual growth rooted in local communities. Samsung will continue its diverse CSR activities, creating a positive impact together with local communities.”
[email protected] Park Ji-yeon Reporter