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Greening of Communities

SAMSUNG's business philosophy stresses "co-existence and co-prosperity." In keeping with this ideal, SAMSUNG Electronics provides its subcontractors with technical support and environmental and safety troubleshooting services. The company also is involved in community service programs that promote environmental awareness. In these ways and others, SAMSUNG Electronics maintains a "green partnership" with every local community in which it works.

Goals to Realize the Greening of Communities
Embodiment of Greening of Communities with Cooperating Companies

• ESH Diagnosis and Technological Guide for cooperating companies

Green Activity for the Communities

• Ecosystem Preservation Activity under the industrial and educational cooperating system
• Operating the environmental sister schools
• A River by A Company campaign

Environmental Preservation Activities

SAMSUNG Electronics sponsors a variety of special activities to make people aware of how serious pollution problems are and how important environmental preservation is to all of us.

Adopt-a-Mountain, Adopt-a-River Clean-up Program
Each plant designates a river and a mountain in its vicinity for periodic clean-up drives. At the same time, the company cooperates with non-government environmental groups in campaigns to clean up each site's river.

Open Environmental Safety Management
SAMSUNG Electronics allows many different groups of people--including government officials, civic groups, corporate employees, teachers, schoolchildren and local citizens--to look at its environmental safety case studies and related facilities and projects. As a result, the company's operations serve as a place of instruction on environment and safety issues.

Regional Agenda 21
The Regional Agenda 21 is a forum for discussing environmental problems and offering solutions to those problems at the local level. Local government organizations, academics, journalists, civic groups and business people participate in these discussions, which SAMSUNG Electronics helps to organize.

Artificial Wetland
SAMSUNG Electronics and the Green Kyonggi 21 Organizing Committee plan to build a natural wetland at the Green Center, a waste water treatment facility, on the SAMSUNG Electronics Kiheung complex site. The project is being conducted in cooperation with local citizens, who have been invited to submit their suggestions during the planning stages. A sketching contest was also held in conjunction with the project. Effluenec treated at the Green Center will be discharged into the wetland and the impact on local fauna and flora will be closely studied. The species of plants and tree prevalent in the area will be planted in the artificial wetland for impact assessment, and the surrounding eco-system will be monitored as well.

Designation of Environmental "Sister" Schools
Each SAMSUNG Electronics plant forms "Sisterhood" ties with local primary and middle schools. Through this relationship, the company carries out various activities such as essay contests with an environmental theme, slogan and poster contests, local clean-up drives, awards for model students and scholarship programs.

Ecology Research Projects with Academia

SAMSUNG Electronics and Kyunghee University are jointly involved in research to ascertain the degree to which local pollution and heavy metal dust effect the environment of the Suwon area, as well as to study ecological changes to, and the kinds of pollution in, the Osan River and Singal Lake. The company is also researching the Wonchun River ecology in cooperation with Aju University and the Suwon Center for Environment Movement. Local citizens and environmental groups are invited to symposiums where research findings are presented and discussed, as part of ongoing efforts to preserve the ecology of Korea's provincial areas.

Support for Environmental Safety Control at Subcontractors

SAMSUNG Electronics conducts environmental safety inspections at its subcontracted suppliers at least twice a year. Once the overall environment and safety problems are known, guidance and advice are provided. SAMSUNG Electronics will dispatch teams to offer periodic technical support and provide various training programs on improving environmental and safety practices. The subcontracted companies are given reference materials; their environment and safety engineers receive special training; and their top managers attend special seminars held by SAMSUNG Electronics. SAMSUNG will also help its subcontractors to obtain ISO 14001 certification and the "Environmentally Friendly Company" designation.