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Hyundai Engineering wraps up home-repair volunteer drive for 20 households in North Gyeongsang Province

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Hong Seung-hee
Published : Aug. 27, 2026 - 14:17:08
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Putting 'Connecting Spaces and Energy' values into practice

Student volunteers participating in the Gift House Season 12 home-repair drive replace flooring at a household in Yeongyang-gun, North Gyeongsang Province. [Hyundai Engineering]
Student volunteers participating in the Gift House Season 12 home-repair drive replace flooring at a household in Yeongyang-gun, North Gyeongsang Province. [Hyundai Engineering]

Hyundai Engineering announced Thursday that it had successfully completed its "Gift House Season 12" home-repair volunteer program targeting low-income households in Yeongyang-gun, North Gyeongsang Province.

The drive covered 20 households in the Seokbo-myeon area of Yeongyang-gun, focusing on improving living conditions and boosting energy efficiency. A 70-member volunteer team — made up of Hyundai Engineering employees and university students — completed preparatory training and hands-on practice before heading to the site, where they carried out wallpapering, flooring replacement and lighting upgrades.

Beyond basic repairs, the team reinforced insulation and replaced aging fixtures with high-efficiency LED lighting and air conditioners, helping reduce heating and electricity costs for recipient households. The project was carried out in partnership with Yeongyang-gun and Hamkke Utneun Sesang, a nonprofit specializing in home repair, in a public-private collaboration.

Gift House is Hyundai Engineering's flagship corporate social responsibility program, providing safe homes for low-income households. Since 2015, the company has donated 41 modular homes across 21 local governments nationwide. Starting in 2023, it expanded the initiative to include employee-and-student home-repair drives, completing renovations on 166 aging homes across five local governments.

Last month, Hyundai Engineering officially unveiled a new corporate value framework centered on the identity statement: "On the road connecting spaces and energy, we create better lives through our technology."

The home-repair drive is a practical expression of that new framework in a community-service setting. The company paired spatial support — improving the living environments of vulnerable households — with energy-efficiency work, including insulation reinforcement and the provision of high-efficiency appliances. Through these efforts, Hyundai Engineering says it is sharing with local communities its corporate philosophy of delivering better quality of life, grounded in its construction capabilities and energy expertise.

"We are deeply honored to have contributed to improving the living conditions of low-income residents in the community," a Hyundai Engineering official said. "We will continue to provide meaningful, practical support to neighbors in need and carry out social contribution activities that create genuine social value, drawing on our expertise and capabilities."

Hyundai Engineering continues to develop a range of corporate social responsibility initiatives that draw on its strengths as a construction company, under the vision of being a "happiness and energy sharing company."


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