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How did restaurant owners react to unexpected Pukyong students? | |||
WRITER | Department of External Cooperation | WRITE DAY | 2020-02-18 |
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How did restaurant owners react to unexpected Pukyong students? | |||||
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"A bowl of rice? No, please take a bag of rice." It is the story of 24 students from Pukyong National University's public relations ambassador, Blue (Representative Oh Chang-seok), who recently held a “rice sharing event of love,” and the owners of restaurants around the university. They donated rice from around 60 shops and restaurants around the school with small rice jars last month from 30th to 1st of this month. The rice thus gathered exceeded 90 kg. Oh Chang-seok, a representative of ‘Blue’ (3rd grade of Tourism Management) said, “As we asked the restaurant owners to donate a bag of rice, the owners gave us two or three bowls of rice. The owner of the store even gave me a bag of rice, saying "if a person gives only one bowl of rice, that means the person has no consideration.” The event began in 2015 to support 'Blue' students to donate a handful of rice from stores and restaurants in the campus town of Pukyong National University to donate to difficult neighbors. There are more than 460 participated shops in the event, held annually before and after the New Year holidays. Label the “House with Pukyong National University” sticker on the donated shop. The economy has been difficult, but the shop owners have been more generous. 40kg more than 50kg collected last year. The shop owners say, “We are really proud of the students who come every year to help our neighbors.” Pukyong National University's 'Blue' students donated to the Busan headquarters of (a social welfare organization, the National soup kitchen of Angel (Busan Choeup-dong) for free to help the neighbors in need of rice. <Pukyong Today> |