Woori Bank opens lounge for Mongolian migrants
- 2010-08-30 11:25
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Woori Bank opened a lounge for migrant workers from Mongolia on Sunday under its recent commitment for an expatriate-friendly service.
The lounge, designed as a sort of shelter for Mongolians, is at the bank’s Gwanghi-dong branch in downtown Seoul.
It is equipped with about 300 books and a variety of CDs and DVDs in Mongolian.
A bank spokesman said any Mongolian worker is allowed to use the facility free of charge. Free rental services are also available.
The lounge also provides visitors with basic Korean textbooks and Korean dictionaries to help them to access the nation’s culture and society.
“I hope this small shelter will be a space in which Mongolian workers relieve their homesickness and interchange among themselves,” Woori Bank CEO Lee Chong-hwi said during the opening ceremony.
He also promised to offer financial services suitable for expatriate employees and to be engaged in social contribution activities for them.
Among the celebrities who participated in the opening event were Rep. Na Kyung-won from the ruling Grand National Party, Mongolian Ambassador Gerel Dorjpalam, and Otgontsetseg Damdinsuren, a Mongolian-language professor at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Last December, Woori Bank opened a similar kind of lounge for Filipino workers in the Hyehwa-dong branch in Seoul.
Unlike normal branches with five-day workweek system, the branches of Gwanghi and Hyehwa open on Sundays to offer services like foreign exchanges for Mongolian and Filipino workers who don’t have time to drop by banks on weekdays.
By Kim Yon-se (kys@heraldm.com)
The lounge, designed as a sort of shelter for Mongolians, is at the bank’s Gwanghi-dong branch in downtown Seoul.
It is equipped with about 300 books and a variety of CDs and DVDs in Mongolian.
A bank spokesman said any Mongolian worker is allowed to use the facility free of charge. Free rental services are also available.
The lounge also provides visitors with basic Korean textbooks and Korean dictionaries to help them to access the nation’s culture and society.
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| Woori Bank CEO Lee Chong-hwi (second from left), Mongolian Ambassador to Seoul Gerel Dorjpalam (left) and Rep. Na Kyung-won of the Grand National Party (third from left) attend a ceremony to open a lounge for Mongolians at the bank’s Gwanghi-dong branch in Seoul, on Sunday. (Woori Bank) |
“I hope this small shelter will be a space in which Mongolian workers relieve their homesickness and interchange among themselves,” Woori Bank CEO Lee Chong-hwi said during the opening ceremony.
He also promised to offer financial services suitable for expatriate employees and to be engaged in social contribution activities for them.
Among the celebrities who participated in the opening event were Rep. Na Kyung-won from the ruling Grand National Party, Mongolian Ambassador Gerel Dorjpalam, and Otgontsetseg Damdinsuren, a Mongolian-language professor at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Last December, Woori Bank opened a similar kind of lounge for Filipino workers in the Hyehwa-dong branch in Seoul.
Unlike normal branches with five-day workweek system, the branches of Gwanghi and Hyehwa open on Sundays to offer services like foreign exchanges for Mongolian and Filipino workers who don’t have time to drop by banks on weekdays.
By Kim Yon-se (kys@heraldm.com)
