Programs

The 1% Art School is a community participatory art program financed by the 1% Sharing program where POSCO Group employees donate 1% of their pay to support children to realize their potential through culture and art. Instead of passive culture and art education where children just play instruments or memorize theories, this program pursues art education where children ask questions, take part, and think actively. In 1% Art School, literature, music, art, and dancing are all just a medium. There, children learn how to think creative, talk with their friends to reach an agreement, and express their behaviors.

While participating in this program every week, totaling 20 sessions, they can think about problems confronting their town and community, and try to find a solution through art. The 1% Art School is always with these children without missing even a chance of 1% to ensure they can grow as a healthy future leader.

Objectives

To support the healthy growth of children at local child shelters and develop capabilities of art teachers in Pohang and Gwangyang

Program

On-site culture and art education covering literature, music, fine art, film, and dance (weekly, 20 sessions or more)

Process

1. 

   Collect needs
   from each center

2. 

   Audition
   and select
   art teacher

3. 

   Train teachers
   and hold
   workshop

4. 

   Art School
   education

5. 

   Performance
   review meeting

Support

All program costs, including materials cost, presentation cost, lecturing cost, and workshop cost

Programs

Unlike schools in the capital area, schools in some regions have difficulties in motivating students in science. So we visit those schools and provide experiential special lectures to help students develop creativity. In 2019, we planned and ran a science class program for 21 classes at six middle schools near the steel mills in Pohang and Gwangyang with the goal of fostering future experts in materials science.

Selected among students who are interested in science, participants are given a special experience where they think about industries and their future career.

Process

1. 

   Plan special
   lectures

2. 

   Collect
   schools

3. 

   Recruit
   teachers

4. 

   Commence
   education

   1. Introduce
      education aids
   2. Experience
   3. Tasks
   4. Career exploration
5. 

   Operate
   education

Gallery

• 

  Advanced Technology & Steelworks
  Steelworks Adventure

• 

  Making Class
  Transformation: Scrap Collector!

• 

  Board Game
  Mission: Reinvent Steel!

Program

Do Dream is a career support program aimed to help young students who are leaving their child shelter to stand on their own feet. From 2019, Do Dream has provided tailored support to each student for any profession, including hairdresser, cook, nurse, and public servant. Of those aged between 18 and 29 who have left their child shelter, anyone who has a dream is eligible for this program, which provides a full package of career support, ranging from living expense, which is the most urgent to many of them, to career support allowance, and even the reward for getting a job.

Do Dream supports youths who leave their child shelter and try to stand on their feet in our society to help them find a better future.

Objectives

To support youths leaving their child shelter

Program

Career support consulting, Do Dream camp, etc.

Process

1. 

   Advertise for
   new students

2. 

   Interview
   / selection

3. 

   Career design
   / mentoring

4. 

   Provides
   edu programs

5. 

   Completion
   ceremony

Support

A full package covering living expense, career support allowance, job seeker allowance, and reward for getting a job

Program

Even at this moment, there are still 64 million children in the world who cannot even attend an elementary school. There is this vicious circle where children who are deprived of their opportunity to even receive basic education due to unavoidable reasons, such as poverty, sexual abuse, drug, child labor, human trafficking, war, and refugee, also lose their future opportunities. To ensure every child in the world can receive basic education, the POSCO 1% Foundation has been working with UNESCO for the Out-of-school Children Support Program since 2018. Through this education program, we want to bring new opportunity and a better world to neglected children in the boarder areas of Thailand and in Indonesian islands.

Objectives

To support the right of every child in the world to receive good education

Program

Alternative school (community center), teacher training, support for children with Learning Coin Project, etc.

Process

1. 

   Select students
   and provide data
   coupon and PC

2. 

   Mobile
   education

3. 

   Grant points
   based on
   learning results

   1. Redeem points for cash
4. 

   Art School
   education

5. 

   Monitoring

   1. *Process of Learning Coin Project

Support

School remodeling, education aids, mobile education apps, supply of tablet PC, etc.

Program

The Dream School project aims to provide outstanding educational opportunities and mentoring to adolescents in Pohang and Gwangyang where they lack educational infrastructure compared to the metropolitan area. What started out as Dream Camp in 2019, the project was offered in classrooms but was later converted into an online program in consideration of safety concerns during COVID-19. Thus, the program was renamed Dream School and started anew in 2021.

Dream School selects 50 students from the nation’s most prestigious universities as mentors through rigorous screening. During the nine-month program, they provide mentoring to students in about 60-minute sessions twice a week.

Objectives

To improve students’ learning ability and develop talent through one-on-one mentoring customized to each student

Campus tours: Students get an opportunity to tour universities of mentors, receive educational counseling and mentoring

Program

Support for essential school subjects: One-on-one online mentoring (3,500 min per student)

Financial aid for arts and sports classes (for lessons, textbooks, and classes)

Process

1. 

   Candidate
   screening

2. 

   Orientation

3. 

   Mentoring

4. 

   Awards ceremony for
   outstanding mentors
   and mentees

Gallery

• 

  Campus tours
  Major orientations

• 

  Campus tours
  Group photo