SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean firms are stepping up to allow employees to read more books by offering subsidies for buying books or opening up company libraries.
Kyung Kye-hyun, CEO of Samsung Electronics Co.’s device solutions division, began offering coupons to thousands of management employees that give unlimited access to e-books.
Kyung, himself a well-known book enthusiast, has been asking employees to read more books and engage in book review discussions since his appointment as president late last year.
Woowa Brothers Corp., the country’s top food delivery app operator, offers employees unlimited subsidies to buy books as long as the books aren’t comics, children’s books, or magazines, the purchased books are made public on the intranet and the books are bought offline.
South Korean game and internet company NHN Corp. opened up an electronic library called ‘Library Deep’ in July of last year as an alternative to the offline company library that has been shut down due to the pandemic.
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