SEOUL: Seoul Archdiocese in South Korea is helping homeless people with its Myeongdong Babjib (soup kitchen) project.
It is serving packed lunches to homeless people every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday after opening a soup kitchen in Myeongdong Cathedral.
The Energy and Chemicals Division of SK Group, the third-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is sponsoring the program by supporting 1,400 packed lunches each week.
“When Pope Francis visited Myeongdong Cathedral in 2014, he blessed us to be the yeast of the Gospel. I hope that the soup kitchen will be a small yeast that changes the Church and the world into a world of warm love beyond Myeongdong and the archdiocese,” said Father Francis Kim Jeong-hwan, executive director of the archdiocese’s One Body One Spirit (OBOS) movement.
Corporate-sponsored cathedral soup kitchen helps Seoul’s homeless
South Korean Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung and volunteers serve food to the needy outside the soup kitchen in Myongdong Cathedral in Seoul Jan. 22, 2021. The energy and chemicals division of SK Group, the third-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is sponsoring the program by supporting 1,400 packed lunches each week. (CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Seoul)
By Catholic News Service • Posted January 25, 2021
SEOUL, South Korea (CNS) The Seoul Archdiocese is helping homeless people with a soup kitchen run out of Myongdong Cathedral.
The energy and chemicals division of SK Group, the third-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is sponsoring the program by supporting 1,400 packed lunches each week. Lunches are served to homeless people every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, reported ucanews.com.