Korea Housing & Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) said on Jan. 2 that it won the grand prize in the K-ESG implementation evaluation institutional sector at the 3rd Korea Public ESG Management Awards held on Dec. 30 last year.

At the Korea Public ESG Management Awards ceremony on December 30 last year, Kang Hyun-jung, Director of Innovation Performance at Korea Housing & Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) (right), and Kim Jeong-rae, President of the Korea Public ESG Institute, pose for a commemorative photo. /Courtesy of HUG

The Korea Public ESG Management Awards is designed to evaluate the ESG (environment, society and governance) management level of public institutions and spread best practices, and is supervised by lawmaker Lee So-young's office and hosted by the Korea Public ESG Institute.

The K-ESG implementation evaluation assesses 66 items composed based on the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's K-ESG guidelines, reflecting indicators such as ▲ public institutions' governance ▲ government policy ▲ management evaluation ▲ external evaluation.

Acting President Yun Myeong-gyu of HUG said, "This award is the result of continuous efforts to fulfill the responsibility of ESG management as a public institution," adding, "We will continue to actively pursue ESG management that creates value the public can feel."

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