Six KT Affiliates Help Rebuild School in the Philippines Destroyed by Fire
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KT Corp. (KRX: 030200; NYSE: KT) said today that its six subsidiaries have jointly built a media classroom and ICT infrastructure for a primary school in Dulag, a coastal town near Tacloban City in the central Philippines.
Korea’s largest telecommunications company said that the participating companies — BC Card, KT Skylife, KT Estate, KT Sat, KTDS, and the KT Hope Sharing Foundation — rebuilt the media classroom at San Jose Central School in a weeklong project beginning on May 28.
The classroom was lost in a fire that destroyed all 13 buildings of San Jose Central School last October. The school has 782 students in 20 classes from kindergarten to sixth grade and has faced extreme difficulties in maintaining daily operations since the fire, which is believed to have been caused by a short circuit in a computer classroom.
The coastal town of Dulag, where the school is located, is some 32 kilometres from Tacloban, the provincial capital of Leyte. South Korea dispatched army troops to support reconstruction after the region was devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013.
BC Card sent “Red Food Trucks” to feed Korean troops. The troops returned to Korea in 2014 after completing a year-long mission, but the company has continued to provide free meals and nutrition education to local residents.
The KT subsidiaries contributed their respective capabilities and expertise to build the new media classroom and install the latest ICT technology for the students and their community.
KTDS conducted a computer class and a virtual reality experience session; KT Estate improved the classroom environment with exterior remodeling and mural painting; KT Skylife donated a UHD TV set and children’s broadcast content to support audiovisual education; KT Sat installed a set-top box in cooperation with Cignal TV, the top satellite broadcaster in the Philippines, for satellite broadcasts of educational content; and BC Card provided warm meals to residents from its red food trucks.
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