Last month, SKinno News had a chance to introduce Grape Lab, a sustainable design studio doing a variety of experiments to solve environmental and social issues. Today, the social enterprise brings us another good news – it has officially launched a campaign on Kickstarter for the new product – g.flow stone Laptop Stand.   ...

  An interview with Cha Wan-young, CEO of Marine Innovation, a social venture partner of SK Innovation selected from 2019 SV² Impact Partnering program Marine Innovation homepage: https://eng.marineinv.com/     Q1. First of all, congratulations! We’ve heard that Marine Innovation has won a grant at a partnership program of Expo 2020 Dubai. Could you share with ...

  An interview with Alice Kim, CEO & Art Director of Grape Lab (https://thegrapelab.org), a “Star Social Enterprise” selected by SK Innovation.    Q1. Grape Lab is an interesting name. Does it have any special meaning?   A few years ago, when I was studying sustainability, I developed a theory so-called “The Bunch of Grapes”. ...

  The UNEP (United Nations Environment Program) Korea has restored 40ha of mangrove forests along the coasts of Tra Vinh Province since 2018. That is about 50 times the size of a football stadium over the last two years. The thick forests of Tra Vinh, in the South of Vietnam, have been severely destroyed due ...

  SK Innovation has joined forces with the Ministry of Environment of Korea to support the growth of innovative start-ups and create an ecosystem for eco-friendly social enterprises.   On November 5, SK Innovation delivered the ‘Stable entry and commercialization as a social enterprise’ grant to social enterprises that were selected through the ‘Environmental Social ...

  In response to global warming, from September 23 to 26, SK Innovation carried out its 6th time voluntary planting as a part of the Mangrove Reforestation Project in Tra Vinh Province, Vietnam.   As one of the supported themes by SK Innovation’s “1% Happiness Sharing Fund(1),” as well as one of SK Innovation’s global CSR ...

  SK Innovation has promoted measures to prevent global warming and create jobs for green forests and the future of the youth of Vietnam.   On April 23, SK Innovation launched the Vietnam Social Value Alliance and the MangLub, the first social enterprise of Trà Vinh Province, in the grand hall of the Trà Vinh ...

  Representatives of the organizations of the Vietnam Social Enterprise Alliance, such as the Department of Planning and Investment and the Department of Forest Protection of the Trà Vinh Province and local universities, have had a chance to verify the social values pursued by SK Innovation with their own eyes.   The representatives of participating ...