Community Involvement & Development

Doosan hosts the Teachers’ Overseas Economic Study Tour program to give teachers a chance to experience schools in countries with advanced economies, and the Science Teachers’ Overseas Study Tour program offers them the opportunity to visit science-related facilities and industrial sites.

Since 2006, Doosan has regularly donated books to elementary schools in remote areas and Korean schools overseas.

Since 1979, Doosan has selected and provided financial support to university research centers and professors of pure academic disciplines to help them focus on their research activities.

To help boost the research morale of young medical scientists, Doosan established the Doosan Yonkang Research Awards in 2006 and has presented monetary gifts to medical scientists for publishing outstanding medical articles in reputed journals inside and outside Korea.

To help university freshmen from low-income households continue with their academic pursuits, Doosan Corporation provides scholarships and mentoring sessions with employees. The program is funded by voluntary donations from employees.

Doosan provides support to talented young people who cannot pursue their dreams due to economic hardship. As of now, there are five young talents who are continuing to follow their dreams in archery, rifle shooting, taekwondo and more under the company’s support program.

Since 1979, Doosan has granted high school and university students with outstanding academic achievement despite their difficult circumstances with full tuition scholarships every year to help them achieve their dreams.

Since 2006, Doosan has been offering the Dream Tree Scholarship to elementary and middle school students who are family heads. Furthermore, since 2010, Doosan has been supporting elementary and middle school students from low-income multicultural families through its Multicultural Family Scholarship.

The award was established in 2010 in pursuit of the belief of the late Yonkang Too Pyung Park, the first Doosan chairman, who put a high priority on nurturing talents. The award is granted to young artists below age 40 who are setting new trends with their distinctive styles in the fine arts and performing arts.

Young emerging artists who work inside and outside Korea are provided with a studio and living space in New York’s Chelsea Art District for six months.

Doosan identifies young and talented artists, and provides them with long-term support to help them continue with their creative works.

Doosan provides support to young artists below age 40 in various ways in support of their new experiments.

Doosan identifies and provides support to promising young curators who can contribute their fresh perspectives to Korea’s modern art world.

Doosan hosts plays, lectures, movie presentations and exhibitions on a topic that is changed once in the first half of every year. Scholars of various disciplines, including social science and the humanities, are invited to give presentations.

Doosan provides free lectures on modern art trends to the general public.

Young people who are interested in arts and culture are provided with a chance to meet artists in person to talk about their interests and explore various career pathways.

With an aim to provide more people with a chance to enjoy cultural activities, Doosan invites people who are relatively less exposed to cultural activities to Doosan Bears baseball games.

Since joining the Chung-Ang University Foundation in 2008, Doosan had made its name as one of the most generous donors among the foundations of Korea’s major private universities in two years, contributing to the expansion of research and educational facilities. Starting with the expansion and remodeling of the Central Library, Doosan improved the learning environment of the students by providing generous support for dormitory renovations, the construction of new buildings for the College of Pharmacy and R&D center, the expansion of the old buildings of the College of Law and College of Business, and the renovation of the College of Engineering 2 building. The company also expanded the faculty office building by adding more than 30 faculty offices and built the Chung-Ang University Hospital annex, creating space for about 1,000 new beds. In an effort to improve the landscape of the campus and the surrounding environment, Doosan has refurbished and restored the Young-shin Hall, Chung-Ang Square, main gate and asphalt pavements inside the campus.

By proposing a brand new development model for universities, Doosan is endeavoring to enhance the future competitiveness and learning capability of the students. These efforts include launching the CEP (Chung-Ang English Program) wherein native speakers hold classes for small groups of students to build practical English capability, revising the current learning systems or adding new programs—such as the recently installed Department of Hybrid Engineering for artificial intelligence, robotics, medical engineering, and energy engineering—opening courses for career search and self-development, adding an intramural career help program, and expanding local and overseas internship programs.