Pukyong National University

Hundreds of restaurants participated in rice donation volunteer activities for college students
PKNU students, 'Love of Rice Sharing Campaign' ... over 340 restaurants joined in 4 years

△ "Blue" students were donated rice at a shop and take a commemorative photo.

On January 26th, a restaurant in front of the main entrance of the PKNU campus. A group of college students went into a restaurant with a small jar. The owner of the restaurant packed the rice in a large jar of rice.

The students greeted to them and put a sticker called "House with PKNU" at the entrance of the shop. The same scene was produced on this day in dozens of nearby restaurants as well as this restaurant.

This extraordinary scene is the 'Love of Rice Sharing Event' held by student members of PKNU's PR ambassador, 'Blue' (representative Kim Hyun-seo) for 4 years.

Since 2015, they have been collecting rice at restaurants near the campus every year and donating them to social welfare organizations. Over 4 years, there are over 340 restaurants.

This year, 24 students of Blue students gathered rice on the 26th and 28th of January, around 80 shops including restaurants near the university. The rice collected in this way reached 120 kg.

"Every this time of years, the students came to receive rice and waited for us, so I waited them this year as well." said one restaurant owner who attended the campaign. "I am very grateful for the students who give us the opportunity to do good work." Last year, the chairman of the National Assembly, Jeong Se-kyun, who had been informed about the volunteer activities, visited the PKNU and encouraged them.

On January 29, students of PKNU donated the collected rice to a social welfare organization, Nationwide Angel Free Feeding Center Busan Headquarters (Cho-eup,Busan), and donated food, cleaning and washing dishes to the elderly.

Kim Hyeon-seo, a student(Department of marine fisheries management,3rd Grade) who conducted the event, said, "I was greatly impressed by the warm hospitality of the stores that gave me the rice, "I'm really proud of the growing number of stores with stickers." <Pukyong Today>


△ "Blue" students are volunteering at the food service area.