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The Asan Social Welfare Foundation has continuously carried out relief activities in overseas and domestic disaster situations and has carried out various relief projects, including support for the 2023 Turkiye-Syria earthquake, support for overcoming COVID-19, and support for forest fire and flood damage.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Go Yoo-seon = The Asan Social Welfare Foundation announced on the 7th that it had delivered $200,000 in relief donations to the Korean Red Cross to help Nepalese victims of large-scale flooding.
The donations will be used for emergency relief and damage recovery projects for affected residents, including food and daily necessities and medical support.
The Asan Foundation has provided approximately 2.1 billion won in donations to overseas relief projects, including $400,000 in support of recovery from the 2023 Turkiye-Syria earthquake damage.
In Korea, 800 million won was added to provide relief to victims of forest fires and floods in Gangwon and Gyeongbuk from 2022 to 2025, 1 billion won to support overcoming COVID-19 in 2020, and 100 million won to relief victims of forest fires in Gangwon-do in 2019.

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