South Korean officials donate blood and vouchers to aid patients
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Kim Dong-yoon, a civil servant in Mokpo, South Korea, completed his 600th blood donation at the Mokpo Center.
Kim began donating blood as a high school student and previously reached 500 donations in 2021. He also donated vouchers worth 600,000 won to the center to commemorate the milestone, becoming one of five people in the Jeollanam-do and Gwangju region to donate 600 or more times. There are 42 such donors nationwide.
Kim Gyu-bin, an administrator at Dong-a Girls’ High School in Gwangju, donated 300 blood donation vouchers to the Korea Leukemia Children’s Foundation. She first donated blood in 2006 and has participated a total of 345 times. Kim Gyu-bin began donating vouchers after sharing 30 with a friend battling leukemia in 2012, and has now donated a total of 300 vouchers to the foundation.
In 2024, she received the “Highest Honorary Grand Award” from the Korean Red Cross for accumulating 300 blood donations and registered as a bone marrow donor in 2019.
