Director WOO Sang-hyeon of W Hospital promised to donate KRW 20 million every year for 10 years starting in this year.

Use as the fund for “W Songwon Researcher Prize” by College of Medicine

[November 16, 2022]

<From the left, Director KIM Jong-yeon of YU Medical Center, Deputy Administrative Director CHOI Hye-kyeong and Director WOO Sang-hyeon of W Hospital, and President CHOI Oe-chool of YU>

 W Songwon Foundation (CEO WOO sang-hyeon) donated KRW 200 million of development fund to YU (President CHOI Oe-chool).

 On the 9th of November, CEO WOO Sang-hyeon of W Songwon Foundation visited YU Medical Center and promised to donate KRW 200 million of development fund to President CHOI Oe-chool and Director KIM Jong-yeon of Medical Center. CEO WOO plans to donate KRW 20 million every year for 10 years, KRW 200 million in total, to YU College of Medicine starting in this year.The development fund to be donated by CEO WOO will be used as the fund for W Songwon Research Prize.

 CEO WOO Sang-hyeon said, "When I was a professor at the Department of Plastic Surgery at YU College of Medicine, there were difficulties with thesis and research activities. I saw that seniors/juniors and classmates from alma mater remained in the colleges as professors and do their best for development of alma mater with reports of research theses and decided to donate research fund to help alma mater. I will try to support alma mater and juniors for development if possible.”

 President CHOI Oe-chool said, “CEO WOO Sang-hyeon has grown W Hospital into a medical institution representing Korea in the field of resin bonding and has been leading public profit and national health improvement. He established W Songwon Foundation and makes social contribution activities in other areas and I respect him. I will do my best for cultivation of talents to contribute human society’s development with use of the donated valuable development fund.”

 W Songwon Foundation was established with use of the nickname of the late Songwon WOO Bok-won Professor at Daegu University who is the father of Director WOO Sang-hyeon of the hospital and established W Hospital, a professional finger-bonding hospital for the first time in Korea. Director WOO of hospital from Class 80 of YU College of Medicine is a world authority in hand microsurgery area. He worked as a clinical fellow at Kleinert Hand Surgery Center, USA in 1999 for the first time as a Korean and opened a professional finger-bonding hospital in 2008 for the first time in Korea when even the term of microsurgical bonding operation was strange in Korea. He succeeded in toes transplantation operation to recover a hand of a patient whose three right fingers were cut in 2011 for the first time in Korea and succeed in arm transplantation surgery with a medical team of Hand Microsurgery Restoration Center of W Hospital in February 2017 for the first time in Korea taking large attention. He received “2002 Best Thesis Prize” from Journal of American Plastic Reconstructive Society after selection by American Society of Hand Surgery in 2020 and his ability is recognized in the world.

 Meanwhile, YU and W Hospital made a project agreement on community development through social contribution and service activities in May. They decided to gather capabilities to construct a cooperation system for the development and operation of social contribution programs, domestic/foreign medical services, collaboration to support medical manpower and technology, and improvement of the community’s health and medicine.